January 1, 2025 • 55 mins
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Join your host Brett Goldstein as he talks life, death, love and the universe with the excellent and hilarious comic actor EGO NWODIM!
If you're familiar with Saturday Night Live you'll have surely seen Ego's fine work by now, and of course it comes up in this episode... A source of fascination for a lot of folks interested in comedy due to it's intense behind the scenes process, SNL is an institution from which so many amazing talents have emerged. Ego has been hard at work on a ton of other projects too, and in this delightful ep you'll hear about those as well as work processes, wellness and health solutions, seeking sun like a cat, dream jobs, not dabbling with demons, being an emotional Pisces, slice of life vs heist films, suavamente, crying as a strength over a weakness, and MORE! Ego is putting this WHOLE TOWN in her rearview! Enjoy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Look how it's only films to be buried with. Happy
New Year, Hello and welcome to films to be buried with.
My name is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor,
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a writer, a director, a korn Husker, and I love films.
As Priya Parker once said, gathering is an art, which
is why the one hundred Foot Journey is my go
to a reminder that food, family, and community can solve
just about anything. Prea nice one dinner's on me. Every
week I'm by a special guest over. I tell them
they've died. Then I get them to discuss their life
through the films that meant that most of them. Previous
guests include Barry Jenkins, Kevin Smith, Sharon Stone, and even
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bed Lambles. But this week we have the brilliant comedian,
actress and sketcho Eggo nu Id. All the episodes of
Shrinking Season two are now available on Apple TV. Get
caught up on every single one. You will absolutely love it.
Head over to the pate at patreon dot com forward
slash Brett Goldstein, where you'll get an extra fifteen minutes
with Ego. We talk secrets, we talk beginnings and endings.
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video check it out over at patreon dot com. Forward
Sashbrett Goldstein, so Eggo and Odim. You might know her
from the cast of SNL, Mister Throwback on Peacock or
Spin Me Around. She is a standout on the show.
You can also check out her new podcast called Thanks Dad.
We had never met before we recorded this. We did
this on zoom a few weeks ago, and she was
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a bloody delight. I think you're absolutely going to love
this one. So that is it for now. Happy New
Year to you all. I very much hope you enjoyed
episode three hundred and thirty two of Films to be
Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried With.
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It is I Brett Goldstein, and I'm joined today by
an actor, a writer, a skep Co, a provisor, a
Laura Orderer, a Crystal Palace cousiner, a Florida Manner, a Futurama,
a mister Throwbacker, a good Burgerer, and one of the great, great, great,
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great great stars of SNL. I can't believe she's here.
She's one of my favorites. Please welcome to the show
here she is, I wont him.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh my gosh, what an intro. Thank you so much,
and thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Thanks for doing this aga, I'm a big friend. Course,
nice to see it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh my gosh, thank you. It's wonderful to see you. Now,
I just want to up top address something which is
my incredibly greasy face. I just washed my Hi, guys,
I just washed my face and I doused it with
oil because after this, mister Goldstein, I'm going to go
to sleep with my greasy face. So I just want
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to acknowledge it for anyone who might be watching the
video and go, why is she so shiny? My god?
Those oils they're not natural, They're not natural. These are
these are artificial.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Those of you not watching, she's glowing.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
What if it's like two people who watch the video.
And so I've made this whole thing about and now
I'm drawing people to go watch the video because I've
commented on some visual aspect of it, and I've drawn
attention to a thing they might not have otherwise said anything.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
It's very clickbaity of you, and I like it.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Let's get these let's get these YouTube views.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, yeah, go firstly, let's talk SNL. Please. Yeah, I
love talking SNL. I've talked to a couple of known,
a couple of people Jason to Bill Hayden was on here,
I know Punky Johnson. I'm always fascinated when I speak
to SNL people. You're brilliant. You're always brilliant, sistly brilliant.
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But I do know from when I hear the nature
of it. Sometimes you're in many things, sometimes you're in
no things. Sometimes you're in king, sometimes you're nothing. Every
week different. How the heck do you cope with this?
Not lose your mind? And are you a loving team
player or as part of you? Do you get competitive?
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Answer all of those questions in order? Please go Okay, great,
who's won?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I want to say? Who is to say I haven't
lost my mind? We'll only know once I no longer
work there, and I can go what is normal and
what is not? I cope by I have good friends
who don't work in the industry. I have good friends
who do work in the industry that I can fight in.
I get to talk about other things. I get to
remember that life is much bigger than the show. I'm
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grateful for that perspective.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I have.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm grateful for how my friends and my family help
keep me super grounded and keep me in touch with
my own humanity above all else. I journal a lot,
I pray a lot, I meditate a lot, I go
to therapy, I listen to Mel Robbins podcasts often, and
I those are the ways that I cope and then
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I try to I just read a quote recently. It
wasn't a but it was a little anecdote about Yoyo Man.
Yoyoma says that when he plays, he's not trying to
prove anything, but he's just simply trying to share something.
And I think I lose sight of that from time
to time, and it was great to read that quote.
And I'm reading another book simultaneously that suggested something else
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about not needing to prove anything, and those are I
read a lot as well, and those things sort of
keep me tethered to the ground and help me regain
my focus when I perhaps lose sight of what's important
and what matters. Am I a team player? I think
I am a team player. I feel like you should
ask the teammates really before else. I think most people
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would say they are a team player and that's not
true for everyone. I'd like to think I'm a team player.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
At times you go, oh, man, someone has a great
idea at table, and go, man, I wish I had
thought of that. But that's great, and I'm excited for them.
Sometimes people are getting the carpet rolled out for them,
and you go, oh, I remember those days, and I
wish I was getting the carpet rolled out for me.
But by and large, I try to remember that as
much as SNL while we're in it, because we work
so many hours, because we are so incredibly sleep deprived,
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because it's all anyone ever wants to talk to us about.
I try so hard to remember that it is a
microcosm and a small part of this very big life.
And I don't mean just like presently big. I mean,
God willing, I'll go on to live many years after
I leave SNL. I did live many years before I
was at SNL, and so I just try to maintain
that sort of perspective. It's not always easy, but I
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say that to say that, with that perspective, I try
not to lose sight of what's important. So I think
about what life will be after I'm not on SNL
and I go. I'd like my legacy to be that
I was kind in the midst of all the chaos,
and that I was helpful to people in the midst
of all the chaos, and not go. Man. I got
every sketch I ever dreamt on on, but I stepped
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on some people and was the savage. That's not how
I want to be thought of, and that's not how
I want to reflect on my time after I'm no
longer there. So I'm not affect. I mean, it sound
like I'm a saint, but I really do try to
be a good team player. So i'd hope to I
hope and I know there are people that would say
I'm a good team player.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Thanks so much for doing the podcast. That is a
perfect answer.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
We can leave it there, all right, all right, see Brett,
it was wonderful talking to you.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, it's really nice to be You're fatally wonderful. Tell
me so. I mean, I don't want to bore you
with I said up questions. But one thing I'm genuinely
curious about is the physical nature of it. The fact
that you're working nights is insay. Now, it's relentless. How
often is everyone ill.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Okay, So just to say something about the physical nature
of it that you acknowledge. Tell me why at the
beginning of my seventh season or at the end of
my sixth maybe somemer between the two is more accurate.
I just realized that my body is my instrument at work.
But just realize, I go, oh, yeah, I'm using this
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to do what I do in a way that someone
who maybe works in an office and a corporate capacity
is not. It just occurred to me, so I'm like, oh,
We've got to like get massages and do physical therapy.
And while it is a luxury, I'm like it's a
bit of a necessity as well for what I do.
How often are people sick? I would say people are sick,
really are sick quite often, But I think people are
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pushing through. I also think we have like pretty resilient
immune systems, and if you didn't come into that place
happening one somehow, some way, you will build one up.
But yeah, I would say people are sick. I'm a
huge fan of well Miss formula. This is not an ad,
this is not sponsored content. A big fan of well
Miss formula, which they sell at Whole Foods. Do you
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have well miss formula on your person right now. Okay,
how about this? Can I see whether you have the
capsules or the tablets because I have a hot take here.
Do you know this is really important? Guys, this is
really really important.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Think it's I think it's caps capsules.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So the capsules you can you can see, you can
see the.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Okay, good, good, thank god you have tablets.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
The capsules are apps. I find to be incredibly ineffective.
My former castmate Beck Bennett told me about well in
this formula many moons ago, I was a Zicam girly
and I was big on zicam and I actually it
comes in several forms. You can like shoot the liquid
up your nose. You can take the tablets that taste
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like chalk. But then there's all these rules about if
you take zycam fifteen minutes before, you cannot have any
citrusy beverages. Thirty minutes after you take it, you can't
eat or drink anything regardless of citrus nature. Too many
things to remember. So I like the swabs. So when
we started testing for COVID, I was like, oh, I
put Zycam swabs up my nose all the time. This
will be nothing to test for COVID. Well. Everyone else
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was freaking out. But back then it told me about
wellness formula and I was like, I've got my zicam.
But by the way, the combination is incredibly effective. I
want to say, also, not an ad for as I can,
but if they want to hire me, they should have
at it. The tablets are so powerful. I started with
the capsules because I didn't know he didn't specify, and
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I thought, why would he recommend this crappy medicine. It
was ineffective. I was feeling sick, started taking them. I
was like, I got I stayed sick. I was like,
this isn't working. But then I had a friend when
I was poo pooing wellness formula, she was like, no,
you have to get the tablets. And I'm okay, I'm
going to give it one more try. And now I
swear by the tablets. I've told several of my cast
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members I've paid it forward. Got to get the tablets.
Game Changered. They're like horse pills, three at a time,
the directions on the back of guys. But people are sick.
People are sick. Someone at work said to me on Saturday,
I was like, are you leaving because they had a
coat on, and they go, no, I have a fever
and I'm really cold right now. And they're like casually
talking in my face. So I'm like, well, you're clearly
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sick in that case if you have a even have
a winter coat on indoors and are telling me you're cold.
But I'm like you you go you. I love that
pushing through.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You have a week off. Now. We are lucky to
talk to you on your hiatus. It's a hyat.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You have a week off, it's a hiatus. It's a hiatus.
I don't know if other industries use the word. I
once said I'm on hiatus to a person and they're like,
what's a hiatus? And I was like, oh man, am
I doing industry speak? But the word means what it means.
It's not exclusive to Hollywood, right.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I just think that there's not many other jobs where
they can just go, yeah, we're just going to stop
for a week.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I'm just now getting into sports. But don't they call
it a bye week in sports? Have you heard of this?
Me going, have you heard of this new thing? I
think in sports it's called a bye week when they're
all for the week. Well maybe I don't know if
that's b I or if it's b ye. If it's
be why, but I a bye week is a thing.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So what you did on your hiatus your bye week?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Okay? But I am sleeping with no alarm, setting no alarm.
I'm napping as I please, as frequently as I please.
I am spending time with my dog. His name is Chief.
He's truly an angel. Catching up with friends. I owe
a lot of people phone calls back, so we're just
going one by one by one. And then I get
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to join New York a little bit and just and
do things during the day or the weekend that I
otherwise might not get to do. But it's really nice.
It's a good reset, it's good, good time to be
a human again.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, it ends, shuts down done. What's your dream job?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh wow? I would love to star in my own
series where there's a little comedy and there's a little drama.
I believe we call that a drama d and uh
that would be really fun. And then to get to
direct an episode of that or something would be very fun.
I want to direct nice, But I'm in There's so
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many things in life that I want to do, even
just like in terms of hobbies, and I go, let's
like spread this out. Let's really make this a really
fun life. So directing is one of them. But I
don't feel in any rush because I feel like some
people are quick to be like, you can do it tomorrow,
and I go, I know, I know, but it's kind
of nice to have a like it's like dessert. Yeah,
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but I this, I don't need to. Let's just want
to sleep and nap like a cat. I'm a person
who like seeks out as telling someone that work on
Saturday where the sun falls in my apartment, so like
from the window and that beautiful rectangle shadow cast on
the couch with the sun, and I go, I'm like
a cat, and I'm like, I will find Yeah, we'll
find that space and go lay in it. And that's
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my favorite thing. And so that's I've been doing a
lot of that, chasing the sun inside my apartment, snapping thanks.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I go, yes, fuck, I've forgotten to tell you something.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Okay, tell me, well I should.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I'm really annoyed myself, so I should have said it earlier.
It's okay, you sure, I don't know if you're going
to think that when you hear what it is, I
write it down as well. Okay, it's so I had,
you know, I had like, oh, she's in Florida, man,
you know all this stuff, but I forgot to tell
you you've died. You're dead.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I'm dead at this point, Oh oh I would have
called my mom before.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh no, yeah, so I'm dead. Okay, how did he die?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I over ate and I burst at the seams, like
death by gluttony, death by gladden.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
What was the last thing you ate? Oh? It was
the very last bite.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The last bite was some combination of red velvet cupcakes
and crab Maryland crab cakes but from Maryland. The crab
meat has to be from Maryland, not pretend. And that's
what it was. Crabcakes. Yes, and I've burst at the seams,
but it was worth it.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
God. Do you do you worry about death?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
No? I actually find and I for a long time.
I'm very like cognizant of death, which is interesting because
I've only had one person really close to me die.
Some might argue to my dad died, but I wasn't
close to him. But one person, my grandmother, died when
I was fourteen and that's the only person close to
me that's ever died, and I feel really fortunate in
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that way. And then there's me, of course, so I
guess that's true. But I'm not scared of I'm not
I don't find myself scared of death. I think I
don't want the people I love to die. But in
terms of me, I go, I really understand death to
be a part of life, part of the life cycle.
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I also go, well, once you're dead, it's over. So
that thing where I remember my cousin once saying I
don't know what she and I were doing or like
late teenagers, and she goes, if I die doing this,
my mom is gonna kill me. And I was like, yeah.
She's like if my dad, my mom was gonna kill me.
And I think, yeah, I love that. That's really funny,
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and it's part of why it's funny. It's like, well,
you're already dead, like no one can be if someone
is mad at you when you're dead, like this sentiment
being she's gonna be really pissed I die this wayme
be mad at me. But I go, someone's mad at
you when you're dead. It's inconsequential. It doesn't matter, it doesn't.
E're in the clear. We're like, yeah, the thing is like,
how you die could be scary. I wouldn't want a slow,
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painful death. Ideally, if I could pick, i'd want it
to be quick.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
But you did pick at the same sprom a red velvet.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
OK, I know, and that's slow. But then there was
there's pleasure. There was pleasure mixed with pain.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, quite sudden.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, just my body going what is she doing? And
so that part, but there was pleasure in that, whereas
like if you're in a car accident, I go, ooh,
is that like a slow? Is that slower? Is that fast?
I don't know. It depends on what kind of accident,
but there are just ways that are slow and there
is no pleasure involved my perspective, and I'd like to
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steer clear of that, but no I don't. I'm very
cognizant of death. I think about it. I think about
it sometimes where I'm like, if my siblings, if I
died and my siblings like read my journal, I go, WHOA,
that'd be crazy. There's not there probably is juice in there.
I don't know, but in my memory of it, there's
not any juice. But I go, oh, that'd be wild,
but not really because I'm dead. So it doesn't like
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there is no embarrassment, there is no shame, there is
no you're not going to feel those things, in my opinion, so.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You think of to death, that's nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I believe in heaven and Hell in some way, shape
or form, but I don't. I don't know what I
totally believe in that. Whether this is hell already, I
don't know. In many ways it feels like it is,
and so I don't know if this is hell. I
don't know who goes to Hell gets to heaven? I
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don't quite you know. And I also find that my
brain goes in one hundred miles per hour. I think
I'm like slowing down right now because as you know,
my greasy face is going to go to sleep after this.
But my brain goes a million miles per hour. And
so I'm constantly thinking about a million different things, and
the synapses, baby, they are firing. But when it comes
to things like what do I think happens after death?
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I go my spending real energy on trying to discern
what that because I'm like, I'm a person of fath is.
How describe myself. What that means is, Yeah, I believe
in God, whatever God is, I do, and I believe
in a I believe in a loving God. That being said,
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when we go down a path of like what actually
happens after we die, I'm sort of like, as I said,
brain firing on all cylinders too often, too often for
my own good. I'm like, that's not a thing I
want to spend mental energy on, not for fear, just
because I'm like, I'm not gonna be able to figure
it out, so contemplating it beyond me going, Yeah, I
believe in heaven, hell, I don't know where, when whatever.
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I'm okay with the question marks. And that's cool because
oftentimes I'm like, I need answers, I need hard and
fast answers. But as far as what happens after death,
I go, I don't know, we'll find out.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I got one one question. It's quite unusual for guests
on this show to see hell as well, which is interesting. Yeah,
if this is hell and I hear you people here
when they die, are they graduating or they go into
a less hell or a best I.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Don't know, that's what I don't know. I'm like, maybe
this is hell, and when everyone does answer the question.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I know it's a great question that I wish. I
dear Lord knows, I wish I had the answer to
I don't know what I There's a million things you
could ask.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Me that I go.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Here is my hot take. I'm full of hot takes.
But then yeah, I think there's also something lovely. And
I don't do this. And this is not to pat
myself on the back, because I actually don't do this
almost ever, but go, I don't know, and that's actually
that's it, and that's okay, that's rare. I do that,
by the way. I'm normally like, this is my outic.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, go, yes, I know, you know, I'll tell you.
That's a heaven. I guess what you're going, Thank God,
Thank God is filled with your favorite thing. What's your
favorite thing?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
My favorite thing? Oh my goodness, this is not tangible,
but it is my favorite thing. It's making me smile
right now. The thought of it, sitting in an intimate
setting with friends and laughing is like, there are times
that I'm very well, thank you, I'm really like, I
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feel like I have an out of body experience and
I'm so proud of it because I think heart gratitude
could be so hard to access at times, and understandably
so for many people. But there are these moments in
life where I go, I'm here, I'm present, So it's
not depersonalization, is not what's happening. But I'm like, I'm here,
I'm present, and I'm enjoying and I'm filled, like with
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belly levels, just dreaming with joy at just the company
I'm with, the laughs we are sharing and we're laughing
about nothing. My friends and I are often laughing about
just nothing, the dumbest stuff. And these moments where I go, ah,
this is so delicious and I hate to use that
word to describe it, but I go, it's just rubbing
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my fingers together. This is just Oh, more of this
in life, If life was more of this, man, what
pure unbridled joy this is. And so that's my favorite thing,
those moments where I'm like, oh my gosh, this is
so simple, this cost us nothing, and we are just
like in a room and we are laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing,
oh what joy?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, Well, guy, it's a beautiful answer. And that's what
heaven is. It's into missetting and your friends there, and
everyone's laughing, and they're so excited to see you, and
they want to talk to you about your life through film. Though.
The first thing they ask you is, what is the
first film you remember seeing? A guy?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Oh? Wow, The first film I remember seeing is Lion King? Yes, Aladdin.
One of those two is the first I remember seeing.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yes, both excellent?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yes, yes? Great?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Do you remember seeing them in the cinema?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I don't remember whether I did. I remember them. I
lived with my cousins for a year from five to six,
and I remember, like, Lion King's my cousin's either favorite
movie or I think it's our favorite, or Broadway play.
But Lion King, I believe we saw it at home.
By that time, it was on VHS and we were
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watching it at home. I believe, Yes, did you love
it with all your heart? I really enjoyed it. I'll
say something. I have something to confess to you. Brent,
are you God? By the way, that's just an aside.
That's my brain going A millions are Yeah, I'm in.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
So charge of heaven and stuff that we're very cool.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Okay, I don't worry about it. The doorman, the death, okay, okay, Okay, okay.
So I don't remember a lot of films. It's a
thing I talk about often with people who I'm close to.
It's a thing that I go, I haven't seen a
lot of films, is what I'll say to people. But
I'm like, it's that's only partially true. I was like,
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I don't think I've seen as many films as some
of my comrades and entertainment. But more than that is
that I don't know how people are remembering films the
way they are with such detail. And I have a
really good memory, right, So like right, if you said
something to me right now about where you had dinner,
and there's like one piece of what you said that's memorable,
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if I saw you in five years, I'd go, oh,
I went to blah blah blah place. I've been meaning
to try blah blah blah place since you told me.
Very strange memory. People comment on it all the time,
They go, why do you remember that? How do you
remember that? My god? What cannot remember films the way
it seems everyone else can. And I don't know what happened,
But there are films I remember very vividly. But it's
a strange thing that I don't remember. It's strange to
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me at least that I do not remember films the
way everyone else seems to remember. And they were like
recounting details and saying lines, and I'm like, how.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Maybe you're much more connected to the real world in
your life and I only remember films that I remember
nothing else.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That is so generous of you, And I want to
believe that that's actually what's going on with me over here,
but I am it's baffling to me. And it's a
constant conversation. I mean, I was talking about this with
Keenan Thompson as recently as four days ago, because I
was just like, I don't and he and I have
this conversation maybe twice a month where I'm like, I
don't remember. I don't remember films. It's so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Well, this is the perfect podcast for you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Then, yes, it's exactly. And that's why I said it
was a confession for you, because I go, Brett probably
wouldn't have booked me.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
If you knew this shows really about films. We just
ok the question.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
It's the hook, I see, Okay, what.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
About being scared? What's the film that scares you the most, Eggo,
Do you like being scared?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Do I like being scared as a general concept? No?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Do I like?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well, I like being I don't as the general guns
are not interested. Yeah, I like being uncomfortable. I like
doing things that will make me uncomfortable because I feel
very alive when I do those things. I go, oh,
I'm I still have a pulse. But scared. No scary films.
Do I enjoying scary films? Yes, but I don't do spirits.
(25:34):
I'm not into spirits because I believe in them. So
I don't want anyone getting exercise like it can be
an an it kind of spirit. And I'm not referring
to the film, but it can be like there's some
entity that's kind of getting in people like smile too.
I just saw like it can be like that, but
it can't be like, No, there's demons, don't. I don't
want to dabble with demons. I don't want to do that.
(25:55):
And so, but I do like scary films. First film
that really scared me. I remember watching the movie Fear
on USA Network with Mark Yes, way too yeah, with
Resa Witherson and Mark Wahlberg Way too young. Because it
was on TV, and I was like very scared when
they tried to I remember being so terrified when if
(26:18):
I'm remembering this correctly, they tried to like break into her,
like she was home alone for a weekend or something.
Am I mixing this film?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
It's like he's her boyfriend, but then she breaks up
with him and then he becomes like a stillker Is that, yes.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
But he like stalks her and then her parents are
something And this is where my memory will fail me,
but like her parents are out of town or something,
She's at the house by herself, and he's like trying
to break in and maybe brought a friend to scare her.
I just remember that really scaring me because I used
to be home alone a lot too, but I didn't
have a crazy boyfriend. I have any boyfriend. But I
was like, someone's going to try to do that to me,
(26:52):
and what would my plan be? That or misery? I
remember being really scared of misery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
think I can which one I saw first, but those
I just remember, but fear I feel like I saw
multiple times and it's a film actually again, was just
talking to Keenan about last week. We talk about everything
me and Keenan, But it's a film. I was saying
(27:12):
when Mark Wahlberg bangs on his chest outside of her house.
And then the next day it's like, look what your
dad did to me. I go, I can't believe he
would beat him itself up to be like your dad
did this to me. And I was like, that's a
true psychopath. My first encounter with a psychopath, I guess.
And then since then I've met many. To be clear,
(27:34):
I was about yea many in real life.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, what about crying? What's the film that made you cry?
The do you like her?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
First? I love to cry. I'm a pisces. I didn't
used to like to cry. I'm a big Yeah, I'm
a pisces, very emotional. But I didn't like crime for
a long time. I thought it was a signified weakness
until I was like nineteen and I go, I want
to cry. And I can tell you why I thought
it signified because I'm sure I've said it on another podcast. Why.
But anyway, that being said, first film to make me cry,
(28:03):
which is why my favorite movie in theory is Man
on Fire. It was in eighth grade watching it stayed
up way too late, like staying up till two am
was radical, but I really had to finish watching this
movie and stayed up way too late. I think my
sister rented it from the Red Box. Remember when red
box was a thing. Yeah, I think she rented it
(28:24):
from the Red Box. And I watched it and it
made me cry. And I remember in fifth grade Titanic
came out, everyone was like, this movie is gonna make
you cry. I saw it and I was like, I
feel nothing, and I was like, oh no, I'm my
biggest psychopath or a sociopath, but I basically, Man on
Fire is the first movie to make me cry. I
remember that very vividly, and then it became my favorite movie.
(28:47):
On my college application, they asked, when they were trying
to figure out how to place you in a dorm,
what's your favorite movie? Man on Fire? Beautiful film? Yeah, beauty, terrible,
Rotten Tomatoes score terrible, terrible. Yeah, but truly, I don't
think that's right.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, I think that's right. What is the film that
you love most people don't like it? It is your
guilty pleasure. You're like, you're all wrong, and this film's amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I don't know if this is a guilty pleasure because
I think other people when I tell them this film,
and anyone who's heard me on any podcast at some
point I talk about this, other people shrug and go, sure,
it's good. They won't say it's terrible, but they go,
sure fine. And I'm obsessed with this film. I would
watch this film tonight after we get off this podcast,
(29:34):
and just and I'm not a person who casually watches films,
but the Town, I'm obsessed The Town, Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner.
It's a great film. But I do think people go,
you love the Town, And I can go on and
on about it. I remember everything about it. It's my favorite.
But people shrug and go, I mean, sure, fine, but
your favorite, And I go, yes, obsessed, I will die
(29:58):
on that hill. It's an credible film. And yeah, yes, yeah,
it's my favorite.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Why did you not that I don't necessarily agree or
disagree see crying as a weakness.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Oh, it's because basically, I'm a pisces. I spent a
lot of time with my older siblings and they had
to babysit me a lot, as a lot of older
siblings had to. And anytime I'd cry, they be like
no one wants to see that. And then I was like, oh, okay,
you don't cry. That's not a thing. And that's the
time when all the your brain is forming and you're
(30:32):
making all these associations and you're it's those it was
during formative years, and so I was like, that's weak
because that's kind of what the messaging was there. So yeah,
but now I know that then they were kids. Yeah yeah,
and then I shut down. But now I'm very very
not shut down. I feel literally everything. I feel too
much and I think too much. I'm over overdosing on
(30:56):
thinking and feeling both ends.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah, this is what makes you great.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
What is the film that you used to love but
you've watched it recently and you've gone, oh no, not
for me.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I used to think Urban Legend was such a good
scary movie. I was like, so good, And I rewatched
it recently to do someone else's podcast a couple of
years ago, and I.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Go, this is that is a perfect tinset scary.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
What though, I will say, opening scene, I don't know
if it's opening again. Remember she doesn't remember movies well,
but she doesn't early scene. Yes, she's a piscy. She
just feels, but I was in the back of a
car or I was not. I was in the back
of a car. The person in the back of seam
I'm putting myself in this movie. Do you remember the
scene where the person is in the back of the
(31:50):
car and this girl goes to like the crappy, typical
scary movie trope gas station to get gas and the
dead of night it's pouring rain, and it's like, honey,
you should have done this during the day. That's my
first though, is girl he cuts to get gas during
the day, but she's She goes to get gas and
the gas station attendant looks really creepy. It's like, it's cool,
(32:11):
it's stringy hair. Suspect in the music's building and he
says to come inside. Your credit card isn't working because
he had like taken it to swipe forward to go in.
She says come inside, and you're like, oh, he's trying
to kill her. So she gets in there and he
was like She's like it did work, and he's like, yeah,
I'm trying to tell you, and she runs out of
the gas station because she's like, this guy's trying to
fucking kill me, rate me whatever, and he's like, there's
(32:33):
someone in the backseat of your car. But she couldn't
hear him. She's already off to the races down the dark,
windy road and there was someone in the backseat of
her car. I think that's lovely and brilliant. But that
movie otherwise is not good. But of course, if the
director of that film, a writer of that film did
want to put me in something, I would happily, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
What is the film that means the most to you?
Not necessarily the film film is good, but because the
experience you had seeing the film will always make it
important and special and meaningful to you.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
That's lovely. And I know that there's an answer to this.
It's got to be. So what's happening right now is
my brain is going through the list of movies my
family would see, like big family, like my immediate family
plus all the cousins, and we would spend all the
holidays together, so Christmas Thanks, I mean, we would go
see movies. And I think that was really special. It
(33:27):
was never anything I wanted to see, yeh, And it
was more. And it's funny because now I look back
at this, those times really fondly, and the last several
years that we did get together, which were pre COVID
because now everyone's kind of off in their own land,
building their own families and their own traditions. The last
several years, I would go, I don't want to go
to the movies, and they would all go, you sure,
(33:48):
and I'd be the one person who stayed home because
I'm like, I don't want to see that movie. And
it wasn't an active protest to be like, change the
movie because I think we should all see this one.
It was just like, I don't feel like going to
the movies. I don't want to sit through too a
half hours of that, and they, well, we're all going
and it's gonna be and I don't want to. But
it would be one of those holiday movies. It's not
(34:08):
coming to mind right now, nothing's coming to mind in
this moment, but it would be a movie I saw
with my family during the holidays. I would think those
experiences were special in retrospect, especially.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
And the ones that you actually went to exactly those ones,
the ones that I stood, I went to, the ones
that I joined them for me me going and them going,
you sure, you don't want to come to a positive
see you guys get back.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Very nice to get a break from the family. I
have a Christmas and Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah, and I love them. And I am a bit
introverted too, so I'm like, it's just a nice now.
Like and I used to do all the cooking, and
I loved doing the cooking. That wasn't it. Like my
mom would make the turkey and I would do everything else.
So I think by that time I was also like tired,
and I'm like, I'd rather stay home and just sit
and chill or take a nap, then go to the
movies with the crew.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
So what is the film he most relate to.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I'm gonna say Lady Bird. I was adamant, really love
so Lady Bird. I remember watching that and thinking I
loved it so much. And I can't remember if that's
a controversial taker or not, because I feel like other
people don't get it. But I loved it so much.
(35:22):
I called my mom after I watched and I said
thank you for everything. So basically, I grew up in
Baltimore and I was hell bent on going to school
in LA because I wanted to be an actor, though
I did not study theater or anything related to entertainment.
I was a science major. Just it's other, that's a
whole other thing. But I wanted to move across the
country to a place no one knew. But I was
so adamant about it. I like refused scholarships on the
(35:45):
East Coast and I was like, I got to get
to LA and I had such culture shock when I
got to LA that I met all kinds of people
that I was like, oh my gosh. It took me
being eighteen and away from home and across the country
in this brand new place to go. My mom was
just trying to instill values in me and develop my character.
(36:05):
And I get it now because we would butt heads,
not an abnormal amount honestly at all, but I saw
myself in that character and I go, that was me
so held on one getting away and going across the
country and then realizing, oh my gosh, Mom was right
in so many ways, and it was just trying to
make sure I became a decent human. And so that
one I called her after and I was like, thank
(36:25):
you for everything. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Was she like, have you just watched Ladybird?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah? She knew. She was like it was Ladybird was,
I was like, yeah, I kind of.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Yeah. It's the scene where she calls her that is it.
That is like, it's really profound in the way and
it's the realization of where she's from and the pride
in that. That's very Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
I think so stunning stunning love a slice of life
film I love. I'm not a fantastical girly. I'll say
that again. That is not to say I won't be
in a fantastics when listening. Absolutely loves fantasy. I love fantasy,
but but my preference generally has been for a slice
of life generally or heist films casual. The thing about
(37:15):
the town is that the thing about the town is
that it is rooted in reality. It's based on a
real Yes, it is a slice of life.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, what's the sexiest film you've ever seen?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Sexiest Ooh?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
I like this question, Well you're going to love this.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Oh gosh, okay, sexiest film I've ever seen? Oh man,
that's not the answer. Something came down those just because
it was like I just recently saw it, so I'm
like that's not true. Oh my gosh, I think crazy
stupid love. Right. Fossing's character in that film was just
so smooth. I would have been one of the girls
(37:52):
he could want to get out of here. I would
have been one of the girls. I would have been
one of the girls at that Century City Mall location
that he asked, and I'd go, yeah, I'm down, I'm down.
That was he was so suave in that film. That
character was so swave, like he would have got me.
He would have got me with that.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
What always worried me from his point of view in
that film is he goes to the same bar every
night and he picks I'm like, you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
This is yes, it's.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
It's an airport bar. I get it.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Leave it sure, sure, dim dim lights at the airport bar,
people addressed to the nines. You know, here's the thing.
You make a great point, and it was that part
is very sleazy. But there's a time when, like there's
a time in every woman's life where just the smoothness,
the suave amante of a man, we'll get you. That's
not to say it's right, that's not to say it's
(38:45):
your wisest choice, no judgment, but it was kind of like, honey,
pick a pick up, pick a different You're right, pick
a different bar. But he was incredibly smooth and confident.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
He was amazing in the bar. What I'm saying is
one of the women who had been squabamented by that bar,
I might head back to that bar and then someone else.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yes, I mean, I guess though, in those dynamics, and
given the way they would talk for all of ten
minutes and you go want to get out of here,
you got to understand what's going on. Both people have
to understand that this is not like, oh, we're starting
a relationship. This is very specific and very clear. You know,
(39:29):
he's hit me with a couple of smooth, quippy remarks
and now is saying you want to get out.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Of here, and you want to get out of here?
And I mean that very specifically and clearly.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yeah, And I think so, I think you got it.
So if you go back to the bar the next
day and you see him doing the same thing, you
might feel icky. But you had to have known what
exactly was happening.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
I think I think that's fair. Now there's a sub categree.
I go, yeah, everyone gets this, So forgive me troubling
bonus worrying. Why don't a film you found a rousing
that you went, sure, you shit, oh very good? This
very good?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
A film a rousing because this character was a creep
And guys, forgive me, this is just off memory, which
we've already established. My memory for films is really bad.
But because this character was a creep, I shouldn't have
been aroused by this. I believe I may have been,
(40:30):
but I don't. Guys, forgive me, because I just don't
remember just how creepy he was. I know he was
a very bad man. But Nocturnal Animals Aaron Taylor Johnson's.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Character very very very bad. This is terrible. This is
the perfect, This is the nice perfect. You couldn't think
more terrible.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
That's that's bad, wrong, bad, bad, bad. But I left that,
But be like, who is that? Nocturnal Animals? For sure
that was inappropriately and.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Really impressed by that answer.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah, about how inappropriate it is?
Speaker 1 (41:12):
No, Listen, most people shy away from that question. They say,
a cartoon you went on in?
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Oh shit, I know that was terrible. I should ask
you to cut it out. I won't, though I'm like
standing on it.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeahswer, what is it? Objectively? The greatest film of all time?
Might not be your favorite film, but you guy, that
is the very best of cinema. Bear in mind you
don't remember films exactly.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Here, I'm going to say this because it's one of
my favorites, and I know you said it doesn't have
to be my favorite, but you think about it objectively.
Greatest film, Okay, I feel like I've seen something. There
was a period of time when my sister and I
were in our indie film bag and we were always
at the Landmark on the West Side, and I was
(42:01):
going multiple times a week. It was like my whole personality.
And I'm sure there's a film in that time that
I would go Nope, that was perfect, top two bottom,
no notes whatsoever. I'm gonna say two things, and you
have to bear with me. But and remember, I don't
remember films, right, so I'm sure there's something I'm not remembering.
I'm gonna say I'm tempted to say even and I'm
(42:23):
gonna say Blue Valentine. I think Derek san France is
an incredible director, incredible, exceptional. I love how the actors
have to how they like really delve into the characters
before they even start filming and sort of start living
the characters' lives. That film I'm obsessed with. And when
(42:44):
the Pandemic hit, I watched it again because at the top,
which people go, that's a weird one to pick, but
I go, yeah, it's kind of me. But I love
that film because it feels so real and rooted in reality,
and it doesn't end with a bow on it, like
that's what I aim to make, Like, I aim to
(43:05):
do things like that where I go, this is simply
reflective of real life, and that film just doesn't end
with a bow. And the first time I watched it,
I remember thinking, man, Michelle Williams's character is such a bitch,
and it was a thing I used to argue with
people about and they'd go, no, well he became an
alcoholic and then he didn't have motivation and blah blah blahlah.
And I'm like, but he when she had this kid,
(43:29):
and he was like, you're my girl, I'm all in,
I'm taking care of I love you both. And I
rewatched it at the beginning of the pandemic to be like,
just to be like, I just know, I love this
film and let me watch something not quite company. But
it's comforting to me because I like it, and in
watching it a second time, I go or yeah, second time,
I go, oh, no, I get it, and I picked
(43:50):
up on things I hadn't before. But I also saw
I go, actually, this is a little more complicated, and
maybe he does suck in some ways. And so anyway
that I think is a perfect film top to bottom.
I think it's beautiful. I think the soundtrack is beautiful.
I just heard last week in a store I was shopping.
I heard the You and Me song by Penny and
(44:10):
the Something, which is one of the key songs on
the soundtrack. The other thing I was gonna say, but
it feels so new and fresh that it might seem
like I'm just saying this because first thing that came
to mind was blue Valentine, period full stop. That's we're
going blue Valentine. I do just want to give a
shout out to honorable Mention, which I think we have
to be many years removed from it for people to
(44:31):
really I think they're appreciating it now, but I think
we have to be many years removed from it for
people to at least know that. I'm not saying this
because it's in recent memory. I think Anora is perfect
I agree. I think that is are you kidding me?
Perfect film? I love that I didn't recognize anybody, and
maybe that's my own ignorance. I didn't recognize anybody. I
(44:52):
love that this. I get kind of annoyed when a
movie is more than two hours. I'm a little like
this is self indulgent in a way that feel unkind
to the viewer in my opinion, honestly, and oftentimes it
doesn't need to be. You'll watch the thing. It's two
hours and forty minutes, and that didn't need to be
that long. But Honora, I was captivated the whole time.
The performances are phenomenal, the story and the simplicity of
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the story, especially like when so much of it becomes
looking for a person. I don't want to say too much,
people may not, but like looking for someone and we're
in that for a significant amount, and I'm just I'm
still I'm in it with them. And then it's funny
and it's charming, and it's do I think it's sexy.
I don't know that I think it's sexy, but like
it's got all these levels and textures, and the performances
(45:39):
are so wonderful, and I think they earned their two
hour and twenty minute runtime for sure. And so yeah,
I think that's a perfect film. I do think that's
no notes. Yeah, you can have that.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
I'm going to give you sixty points for that.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Thank you, Thank you so much. What two points afford
me here in the afterlife?
Speaker 1 (45:57):
At the end, you get some tickets and you bring
them up to the counter and you can get some
some cuddly toys or candy flowers, anything, okay, very good,
signed baseball weird.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
I signed it, okay, not you do play?
Speaker 1 (46:16):
No, okay, okay, there's some shelving units if you want
to set up anything like that.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
Okay, great, wonderful, thank you, and a goblet. We can
get into logistics later. It's goblet. Randomly, what is the
film you could or have watched the most over and
over again, Dear Brett, Honey, it's gonna go ahead and
be the town, God bless you, God bless you. It's
or it's or its guess who. It's hard to say
(46:44):
between guess who. The Ashton Kutcher is always Adania remake
of Guess Who's coming to dinner? Either that or the town.
But I think the town has edged guess who out
at this point. Okay, Yeah, what's the worst film you've
ever seen?
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (46:59):
I think this person and is lovely and I've never
met them, so no offense. But I bet you secretly
he also thinks is bad. The worst film I've ever seen.
And I don't know if my memory is not serving
me right, but I mean actively this is this is
Street Kings. Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Oh, I don't even remember it. Well, never happened.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
You are one lucky duckling that I remember thinking, is
this fucking for real? I was in the theater. The
company I was with wasn't great either. I'm googling it
right now to be like, do I remember? Yeah, thirty
seven percent of Rotten Tomatoes. Even though Rotten Tomatoes said
that Man on Fire is not good, which I don't
agree with, Street Kings was one of the worst films
I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Okay, and I think everyone did their part, but I
was just like, what am I watching? That's but that's that's.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
Yeah, Okay, you in comedy. You're very funny, But what
is the film that made you laugh the most?
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Mmm? That's good. I'm gonna say this is the end
really really made me laugh. That's really funny, really funny movie. Ye,
Bridesmaids really made me laugh. And Dinner for Schmucks sucks
is it? Yeah, also really made me laugh. Yeah. So yeah,
(48:15):
those are my three off the top of my head.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
But this is the end.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
And the Disaster Artist was another one that I remember
just being like, this is fucking hilarious. But yeah, I
know it's supposed to say one and I've said three
and a half.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
It's okay. I liked that they were deep dives. Okay, okay,
so I forgive you, he guy, Yes, you've been a delight. However,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
However, when you were in your apartment like a shiny
cat and you were eating and eating and you were
following the light around the apartment, you're and you're just
eating crabcakes from Maryland and red velvet cakes and you
were eating and eating and thinking, you know what, just
following the sun, and he started to get round her
(49:00):
around you. You just started rolling around, following the sun
and just eating, eating, just like a cat. It's a
rolling around eating eat and you're like, this is pleasure.
You remember thinking this is lovely, this is real pleasure.
I'm not in any paint. This is a lovely thing.
Eating you uber eat some more. You said you're gonna
have to check it out the window because I can't
get down the stairs. And they chuck up some more marrying,
(49:22):
specifically marrying, and crab cakes and red velvet cake. You eating.
You have one more, you have one more little I
want my little Maryna, and you have you. I'll have
a little chip, one more little bite, and you buy
and your side explode, and everything all over your apartment
in the sunlight, in the darkness, all over everywhere dead.
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And I'm walking past with a coffin. You know what
I'm like, No guys haven't seen. And I heard something upstairs,
sounded like a cat burst at the seats. I go upstairs.
There's there you are. Oh it's an absolute mess. Ego,
it's a mess. And yeah, like I'm picking bits of
you up and put you in. There is so much
(50:08):
more of you. You ate a lot of this stuff.
There's live crabs. I'm having everything you ate so far.
Some of them were still alive, us.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
Eating the shell, just breaking, biting right.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Into the cab, putting. I put all of you in
the coffin. There's more of you than I was expected.
I'm having to stuff you all in. It' certainly enough
room in this coffin for me to slip one DVD
into the side for you to take across to the
other side. And on the other side, it's movie night
every night. What film are you taking to show your
friends who are laughing in an intimate setting in heaven
when it's your movie night.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Go oh wow, my movie night in heaven. I'm going
to say, you know, I want to say the town.
I fear I'd get sick of it in heaven because
I've enjoyed so much on this side. I've enjoyed it
so much on this side that I'd go the moon
I want to take to my friends and show them
and we were laughing and enjoying. Gosh, I'm gonna say
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the town. And so I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (51:13):
The town.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
I'm gonna say it's the town.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
You stick to your guns.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
I stick to my guns. I stick to the rivers
and the lakes that I am used to. It's gonna
be the town. You know what. I wouldn't want to
watch it over and over, so no, never gonna not
gonna say that, but it's it's just because I think
it's special the way I saw a lot and it's
something because My Old Asses a film I really enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
Maybe Love my Old.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
As My Old Ass is fantastic. I was weeping in
the theater as a New York City Lower East Side theater,
and there were some rowdy teens in the front row
who were talking at full volume the whole time. But nonetheless,
the film was so enjoyable and so beautiful and impactful.
I don't think it's gonna make my friends and I
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laugh and laugh and laugh. On the other side. The
Town has its funny moments, and it's just what I've known.
It's a comforting film to me. I could see myself
taking that. I don't remember how that film, and I
actually kind of want to watch it today. I heard
it's on Netflix. American Gangster. I just care. I just
love Denzel He's such a brilliant actor, which is not
(52:19):
radical for me to say, but yeah, I would. I
would take The Town. We love the Town. The Town
is a phenomenal film, and that's going with me in
my burst body.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
I do thank you so much for doing this. Would
you like to tell people what to look out forward
to listen to any ego business coming up?
Speaker 2 (52:37):
Yes, what to look out for. I'll be on Saturday
Night Live. Sometimes I'm on, sometimes I'm not. As you
mentioned up top, Thanks Dad is my new podcast, relatively
relatively new. It's My Baby. It's a podcast where I
talk to people about their dads and then what I
hear from them about what they're like as parents. And
(52:57):
it's really special. I have really lovely conversation. So you
get to hear a lot of people you may be
a fan of in a capacity you have yet to
hear them. So go listen to that. Wherever you get
your podcast, it's called Thanks Dad. I'm on Instagram Eggy
boom e g g y b o o M follow me.
Why not for a nice time. I think that's it
(53:18):
for now and encourage I would encourage people to go
see Honora and My Old Ass. Actually no connection, but
Two Bangers. Those are really good films.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Oh that's I felt similarly to Lady Bird. I had
that feeling of specificity and I don't know the right
gossling way. I mean it felt like, oh, this, this area,
this place. Yeah, it felt so specific. I love it
so much.
Speaker 2 (53:43):
Yeah, it's it's yes, it was wonderful perfect. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
Hey guy Brett, you've been a delight.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
Thank you, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
Thank you so much for taking taking time out of
your hiatus.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
To do that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
Okay, thanks.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
So that was episode three hundred and thirty two. Head
over to the Patroon at patroon dot com forwards aspect
Goldsting for the extra fifty minutes of chat, secret and
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graphics and Lizzie Adam for the photography. Comes on me
next week for an incredible episode with a brilliant guest.
That is it for now, Happy New year. Everyone, thank
you for being here. I hope you have a wonderful time.
And that is it for now, so in the meantime,
have a lovely week, and please be excellent to each other.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
Back back back, back backs and tacks and back by
bass backs and backs, bass back, by base back fast
and by base back back back
Look how it's only films to be buried with. Happy
New Year, Hello and welcome to films to be buried with.
My name is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor,
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a writer, a director, a korn Husker, and I love films.
As Priya Parker once said, gathering is an art, which
is why the one hundred Foot Journey is my go
to a reminder that food, family, and community can solve
just about anything. Prea nice one dinner's on me. Every
week I'm by a special guest over. I tell them
they've died. Then I get them to discuss their life
through the films that meant that most of them. Previous
guests include Barry Jenkins, Kevin Smith, Sharon Stone, and even
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bed Lambles. But this week we have the brilliant comedian,
actress and sketcho Eggo nu Id. All the episodes of
Shrinking Season two are now available on Apple TV. Get
caught up on every single one. You will absolutely love it.
Head over to the pate at patreon dot com forward
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You get the whole episode uncut, Adfrey and as a
video check it out over at patreon dot com. Forward
Sashbrett Goldstein, so Eggo and Odim. You might know her
from the cast of SNL, Mister Throwback on Peacock or
Spin Me Around. She is a standout on the show.
You can also check out her new podcast called Thanks Dad.
We had never met before we recorded this. We did
this on zoom a few weeks ago, and she was
(01:28):
a bloody delight. I think you're absolutely going to love
this one. So that is it for now. Happy New
Year to you all. I very much hope you enjoyed
episode three hundred and thirty two of Films to be
Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried With.
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It is I Brett Goldstein, and I'm joined today by
an actor, a writer, a skep Co, a provisor, a
Laura Orderer, a Crystal Palace cousiner, a Florida Manner, a Futurama,
a mister Throwbacker, a good Burgerer, and one of the great, great, great,
(02:13):
great great stars of SNL. I can't believe she's here.
She's one of my favorites. Please welcome to the show
here she is, I wont him.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh my gosh, what an intro. Thank you so much,
and thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Thanks for doing this aga, I'm a big friend. Course,
nice to see it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh my gosh, thank you. It's wonderful to see you. Now,
I just want to up top address something which is
my incredibly greasy face. I just washed my Hi, guys,
I just washed my face and I doused it with
oil because after this, mister Goldstein, I'm going to go
to sleep with my greasy face. So I just want
(02:52):
to acknowledge it for anyone who might be watching the
video and go, why is she so shiny? My god?
Those oils they're not natural, They're not natural. These are
these are artificial.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Those of you not watching, she's glowing.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
What if it's like two people who watch the video.
And so I've made this whole thing about and now
I'm drawing people to go watch the video because I've
commented on some visual aspect of it, and I've drawn
attention to a thing they might not have otherwise said anything.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
It's very clickbaity of you, and I like it.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Let's get these let's get these YouTube views.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, yeah, go firstly, let's talk SNL. Please. Yeah, I
love talking SNL. I've talked to a couple of known,
a couple of people Jason to Bill Hayden was on here,
I know Punky Johnson. I'm always fascinated when I speak
to SNL people. You're brilliant. You're always brilliant, sistly brilliant.
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But I do know from when I hear the nature
of it. Sometimes you're in many things, sometimes you're in
no things. Sometimes you're in king, sometimes you're nothing. Every
week different. How the heck do you cope with this?
Not lose your mind? And are you a loving team
player or as part of you? Do you get competitive?
(04:07):
Answer all of those questions in order? Please go Okay, great,
who's won?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I want to say? Who is to say I haven't
lost my mind? We'll only know once I no longer
work there, and I can go what is normal and
what is not? I cope by I have good friends
who don't work in the industry. I have good friends
who do work in the industry that I can fight in.
I get to talk about other things. I get to
remember that life is much bigger than the show. I'm
(04:34):
grateful for that perspective.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I have.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm grateful for how my friends and my family help
keep me super grounded and keep me in touch with
my own humanity above all else. I journal a lot,
I pray a lot, I meditate a lot, I go
to therapy, I listen to Mel Robbins podcasts often, and
I those are the ways that I cope and then
(04:56):
I try to I just read a quote recently. It
wasn't a but it was a little anecdote about Yoyo Man.
Yoyoma says that when he plays, he's not trying to
prove anything, but he's just simply trying to share something.
And I think I lose sight of that from time
to time, and it was great to read that quote.
And I'm reading another book simultaneously that suggested something else
(05:18):
about not needing to prove anything, and those are I
read a lot as well, and those things sort of
keep me tethered to the ground and help me regain
my focus when I perhaps lose sight of what's important
and what matters. Am I a team player? I think
I am a team player. I feel like you should
ask the teammates really before else. I think most people
(05:40):
would say they are a team player and that's not
true for everyone. I'd like to think I'm a team player.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
At times you go, oh, man, someone has a great
idea at table, and go, man, I wish I had
thought of that. But that's great, and I'm excited for them.
Sometimes people are getting the carpet rolled out for them,
and you go, oh, I remember those days, and I
wish I was getting the carpet rolled out for me.
But by and large, I try to remember that as
much as SNL while we're in it, because we work
so many hours, because we are so incredibly sleep deprived,
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because it's all anyone ever wants to talk to us about.
I try so hard to remember that it is a
microcosm and a small part of this very big life.
And I don't mean just like presently big. I mean,
God willing, I'll go on to live many years after
I leave SNL. I did live many years before I
was at SNL, and so I just try to maintain
that sort of perspective. It's not always easy, but I
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say that to say that, with that perspective, I try
not to lose sight of what's important. So I think
about what life will be after I'm not on SNL
and I go. I'd like my legacy to be that
I was kind in the midst of all the chaos,
and that I was helpful to people in the midst
of all the chaos, and not go. Man. I got
every sketch I ever dreamt on on, but I stepped
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on some people and was the savage. That's not how
I want to be thought of, and that's not how
I want to reflect on my time after I'm no
longer there. So I'm not affect. I mean, it sound
like I'm a saint, but I really do try to
be a good team player. So i'd hope to I
hope and I know there are people that would say
I'm a good team player.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Thanks so much for doing the podcast. That is a
perfect answer.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
We can leave it there, all right, all right, see Brett,
it was wonderful talking to you.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, it's really nice to be You're fatally wonderful. Tell
me so. I mean, I don't want to bore you
with I said up questions. But one thing I'm genuinely
curious about is the physical nature of it. The fact
that you're working nights is insay. Now, it's relentless. How
often is everyone ill.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Okay, So just to say something about the physical nature
of it that you acknowledge. Tell me why at the
beginning of my seventh season or at the end of
my sixth maybe somemer between the two is more accurate.
I just realized that my body is my instrument at work.
But just realize, I go, oh, yeah, I'm using this
(07:56):
to do what I do in a way that someone
who maybe works in an office and a corporate capacity
is not. It just occurred to me, so I'm like, oh,
We've got to like get massages and do physical therapy.
And while it is a luxury, I'm like it's a
bit of a necessity as well for what I do.
How often are people sick? I would say people are sick,
really are sick quite often, But I think people are
(08:20):
pushing through. I also think we have like pretty resilient
immune systems, and if you didn't come into that place
happening one somehow, some way, you will build one up.
But yeah, I would say people are sick. I'm a
huge fan of well Miss formula. This is not an ad,
this is not sponsored content. A big fan of well
Miss formula, which they sell at Whole Foods. Do you
(08:42):
have well miss formula on your person right now. Okay,
how about this? Can I see whether you have the
capsules or the tablets because I have a hot take here.
Do you know this is really important? Guys, this is
really really important.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Think it's I think it's caps capsules.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So the capsules you can you can see, you can
see the.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Okay, good, good, thank god you have tablets.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
The capsules are apps. I find to be incredibly ineffective.
My former castmate Beck Bennett told me about well in
this formula many moons ago, I was a Zicam girly
and I was big on zicam and I actually it
comes in several forms. You can like shoot the liquid
up your nose. You can take the tablets that taste
(09:29):
like chalk. But then there's all these rules about if
you take zycam fifteen minutes before, you cannot have any
citrusy beverages. Thirty minutes after you take it, you can't
eat or drink anything regardless of citrus nature. Too many
things to remember. So I like the swabs. So when
we started testing for COVID, I was like, oh, I
put Zycam swabs up my nose all the time. This
will be nothing to test for COVID. Well. Everyone else
(09:51):
was freaking out. But back then it told me about
wellness formula and I was like, I've got my zicam.
But by the way, the combination is incredibly effective. I
want to say, also, not an ad for as I can,
but if they want to hire me, they should have
at it. The tablets are so powerful. I started with
the capsules because I didn't know he didn't specify, and
(10:13):
I thought, why would he recommend this crappy medicine. It
was ineffective. I was feeling sick, started taking them. I
was like, I got I stayed sick. I was like,
this isn't working. But then I had a friend when
I was poo pooing wellness formula, she was like, no,
you have to get the tablets. And I'm okay, I'm
going to give it one more try. And now I
swear by the tablets. I've told several of my cast
(10:33):
members I've paid it forward. Got to get the tablets.
Game Changered. They're like horse pills, three at a time,
the directions on the back of guys. But people are sick.
People are sick. Someone at work said to me on Saturday,
I was like, are you leaving because they had a
coat on, and they go, no, I have a fever
and I'm really cold right now. And they're like casually
talking in my face. So I'm like, well, you're clearly
(10:58):
sick in that case if you have a even have
a winter coat on indoors and are telling me you're cold.
But I'm like you you go you. I love that
pushing through.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You have a week off. Now. We are lucky to
talk to you on your hiatus. It's a hyat.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You have a week off, it's a hiatus. It's a hiatus.
I don't know if other industries use the word. I
once said I'm on hiatus to a person and they're like,
what's a hiatus? And I was like, oh man, am
I doing industry speak? But the word means what it means.
It's not exclusive to Hollywood, right.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I just think that there's not many other jobs where
they can just go, yeah, we're just going to stop
for a week.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I'm just now getting into sports. But don't they call
it a bye week in sports? Have you heard of this?
Me going, have you heard of this new thing? I
think in sports it's called a bye week when they're
all for the week. Well maybe I don't know if
that's b I or if it's b ye. If it's
be why, but I a bye week is a thing.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So what you did on your hiatus your bye week?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Okay? But I am sleeping with no alarm, setting no alarm.
I'm napping as I please, as frequently as I please.
I am spending time with my dog. His name is Chief.
He's truly an angel. Catching up with friends. I owe
a lot of people phone calls back, so we're just
going one by one by one. And then I get
(12:21):
to join New York a little bit and just and
do things during the day or the weekend that I
otherwise might not get to do. But it's really nice.
It's a good reset, it's good, good time to be
a human again.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, it ends, shuts down done. What's your dream job?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh wow? I would love to star in my own
series where there's a little comedy and there's a little drama.
I believe we call that a drama d and uh
that would be really fun. And then to get to
direct an episode of that or something would be very fun.
I want to direct nice, But I'm in There's so
(12:58):
many things in life that I want to do, even
just like in terms of hobbies, and I go, let's
like spread this out. Let's really make this a really
fun life. So directing is one of them. But I
don't feel in any rush because I feel like some
people are quick to be like, you can do it tomorrow,
and I go, I know, I know, but it's kind
of nice to have a like it's like dessert. Yeah,
(13:20):
but I this, I don't need to. Let's just want
to sleep and nap like a cat. I'm a person
who like seeks out as telling someone that work on
Saturday where the sun falls in my apartment, so like
from the window and that beautiful rectangle shadow cast on
the couch with the sun, and I go, I'm like
a cat, and I'm like, I will find Yeah, we'll
find that space and go lay in it. And that's
(13:42):
my favorite thing. And so that's I've been doing a
lot of that, chasing the sun inside my apartment, snapping thanks.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I go, yes, fuck, I've forgotten to tell you something.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Okay, tell me, well I should.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I'm really annoyed myself, so I should have said it earlier.
It's okay, you sure, I don't know if you're going
to think that when you hear what it is, I
write it down as well. Okay, it's so I had,
you know, I had like, oh, she's in Florida, man,
you know all this stuff, but I forgot to tell
you you've died. You're dead.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I'm dead at this point, Oh oh I would have
called my mom before.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh no, yeah, so I'm dead. Okay, how did he die?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I over ate and I burst at the seams, like
death by gluttony, death by gladden.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
What was the last thing you ate? Oh? It was
the very last bite.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The last bite was some combination of red velvet cupcakes
and crab Maryland crab cakes but from Maryland. The crab
meat has to be from Maryland, not pretend. And that's
what it was. Crabcakes. Yes, and I've burst at the seams,
but it was worth it.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
God. Do you do you worry about death?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
No? I actually find and I for a long time.
I'm very like cognizant of death, which is interesting because
I've only had one person really close to me die.
Some might argue to my dad died, but I wasn't
close to him. But one person, my grandmother, died when
I was fourteen and that's the only person close to
me that's ever died, and I feel really fortunate in
(15:22):
that way. And then there's me, of course, so I
guess that's true. But I'm not scared of I'm not
I don't find myself scared of death. I think I
don't want the people I love to die. But in
terms of me, I go, I really understand death to
be a part of life, part of the life cycle.
(15:42):
I also go, well, once you're dead, it's over. So
that thing where I remember my cousin once saying I
don't know what she and I were doing or like
late teenagers, and she goes, if I die doing this,
my mom is gonna kill me. And I was like, yeah.
She's like if my dad, my mom was gonna kill me.
And I think, yeah, I love that. That's really funny,
(16:02):
and it's part of why it's funny. It's like, well,
you're already dead, like no one can be if someone
is mad at you when you're dead, like this sentiment
being she's gonna be really pissed I die this wayme
be mad at me. But I go, someone's mad at
you when you're dead. It's inconsequential. It doesn't matter, it doesn't.
E're in the clear. We're like, yeah, the thing is like,
how you die could be scary. I wouldn't want a slow,
(16:24):
painful death. Ideally, if I could pick, i'd want it
to be quick.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
But you did pick at the same sprom a red velvet.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
OK, I know, and that's slow. But then there was
there's pleasure. There was pleasure mixed with pain.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, quite sudden.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, just my body going what is she doing? And
so that part, but there was pleasure in that, whereas
like if you're in a car accident, I go, ooh,
is that like a slow? Is that slower? Is that fast?
I don't know. It depends on what kind of accident,
but there are just ways that are slow and there
is no pleasure involved my perspective, and I'd like to
(17:01):
steer clear of that, but no I don't. I'm very
cognizant of death. I think about it. I think about
it sometimes where I'm like, if my siblings, if I
died and my siblings like read my journal, I go, WHOA,
that'd be crazy. There's not there probably is juice in there.
I don't know, but in my memory of it, there's
not any juice. But I go, oh, that'd be wild,
but not really because I'm dead. So it doesn't like
(17:24):
there is no embarrassment, there is no shame, there is
no you're not going to feel those things, in my opinion, so.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You think of to death, that's nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I believe in heaven and Hell in some way, shape
or form, but I don't. I don't know what I
totally believe in that. Whether this is hell already, I
don't know. In many ways it feels like it is,
and so I don't know if this is hell. I
don't know who goes to Hell gets to heaven? I
(17:54):
don't quite you know. And I also find that my
brain goes in one hundred miles per hour. I think
I'm like slowing down right now because as you know,
my greasy face is going to go to sleep after this.
But my brain goes a million miles per hour. And
so I'm constantly thinking about a million different things, and
the synapses, baby, they are firing. But when it comes
to things like what do I think happens after death?
(18:17):
I go my spending real energy on trying to discern
what that because I'm like, I'm a person of fath is.
How describe myself. What that means is, Yeah, I believe
in God, whatever God is, I do, and I believe
in a I believe in a loving God. That being said,
(18:38):
when we go down a path of like what actually
happens after we die, I'm sort of like, as I said,
brain firing on all cylinders too often, too often for
my own good. I'm like, that's not a thing I
want to spend mental energy on, not for fear, just
because I'm like, I'm not gonna be able to figure
it out, so contemplating it beyond me going, Yeah, I
believe in heaven, hell, I don't know where, when whatever.
(18:59):
I'm okay with the question marks. And that's cool because
oftentimes I'm like, I need answers, I need hard and
fast answers. But as far as what happens after death,
I go, I don't know, we'll find out.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I got one one question. It's quite unusual for guests
on this show to see hell as well, which is interesting. Yeah,
if this is hell and I hear you people here
when they die, are they graduating or they go into
a less hell or a best I.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Don't know, that's what I don't know. I'm like, maybe
this is hell, and when everyone does answer the question.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I know it's a great question that I wish. I
dear Lord knows, I wish I had the answer to
I don't know what I There's a million things you
could ask.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Me that I go.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Here is my hot take. I'm full of hot takes.
But then yeah, I think there's also something lovely. And
I don't do this. And this is not to pat
myself on the back, because I actually don't do this
almost ever, but go, I don't know, and that's actually
that's it, and that's okay, that's rare. I do that,
by the way. I'm normally like, this is my outic.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, go, yes, I know, you know, I'll tell you.
That's a heaven. I guess what you're going, Thank God,
Thank God is filled with your favorite thing. What's your
favorite thing?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
My favorite thing? Oh my goodness, this is not tangible,
but it is my favorite thing. It's making me smile
right now. The thought of it, sitting in an intimate
setting with friends and laughing is like, there are times
that I'm very well, thank you, I'm really like, I
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feel like I have an out of body experience and
I'm so proud of it because I think heart gratitude
could be so hard to access at times, and understandably
so for many people. But there are these moments in
life where I go, I'm here, I'm present, So it's
not depersonalization, is not what's happening. But I'm like, I'm here,
I'm present, and I'm enjoying and I'm filled, like with
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belly levels, just dreaming with joy at just the company
I'm with, the laughs we are sharing and we're laughing
about nothing. My friends and I are often laughing about
just nothing, the dumbest stuff. And these moments where I go, ah,
this is so delicious and I hate to use that
word to describe it, but I go, it's just rubbing
(21:21):
my fingers together. This is just Oh, more of this
in life, If life was more of this, man, what
pure unbridled joy this is. And so that's my favorite thing,
those moments where I'm like, oh my gosh, this is
so simple, this cost us nothing, and we are just
like in a room and we are laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing,
oh what joy?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, Well, guy, it's a beautiful answer. And that's what
heaven is. It's into missetting and your friends there, and
everyone's laughing, and they're so excited to see you, and
they want to talk to you about your life through film. Though.
The first thing they ask you is, what is the
first film you remember seeing? A guy?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Oh? Wow, The first film I remember seeing is Lion King? Yes, Aladdin.
One of those two is the first I remember seeing.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yes, both excellent?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yes, yes? Great?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Do you remember seeing them in the cinema?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I don't remember whether I did. I remember them. I
lived with my cousins for a year from five to six,
and I remember, like, Lion King's my cousin's either favorite
movie or I think it's our favorite, or Broadway play.
But Lion King, I believe we saw it at home.
By that time, it was on VHS and we were
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watching it at home. I believe, Yes, did you love
it with all your heart? I really enjoyed it. I'll
say something. I have something to confess to you. Brent,
are you God? By the way, that's just an aside.
That's my brain going A millions are Yeah, I'm in.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
So charge of heaven and stuff that we're very cool.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Okay, I don't worry about it. The doorman, the death, okay, okay, Okay, okay.
So I don't remember a lot of films. It's a
thing I talk about often with people who I'm close to.
It's a thing that I go, I haven't seen a
lot of films, is what I'll say to people. But
I'm like, it's that's only partially true. I was like,
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I don't think I've seen as many films as some
of my comrades and entertainment. But more than that is
that I don't know how people are remembering films the
way they are with such detail. And I have a
really good memory, right, So like right, if you said
something to me right now about where you had dinner,
and there's like one piece of what you said that's memorable,
(23:40):
if I saw you in five years, I'd go, oh,
I went to blah blah blah place. I've been meaning
to try blah blah blah place since you told me.
Very strange memory. People comment on it all the time,
They go, why do you remember that? How do you
remember that? My god? What cannot remember films the way
it seems everyone else can. And I don't know what happened,
But there are films I remember very vividly. But it's
a strange thing that I don't remember. It's strange to
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me at least that I do not remember films the
way everyone else seems to remember. And they were like
recounting details and saying lines, and I'm like, how.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Maybe you're much more connected to the real world in
your life and I only remember films that I remember
nothing else.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That is so generous of you, And I want to
believe that that's actually what's going on with me over here,
but I am it's baffling to me. And it's a
constant conversation. I mean, I was talking about this with
Keenan Thompson as recently as four days ago, because I
was just like, I don't and he and I have
this conversation maybe twice a month where I'm like, I
don't remember. I don't remember films. It's so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Well, this is the perfect podcast for you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Then, yes, it's exactly. And that's why I said it
was a confession for you, because I go, Brett probably
wouldn't have booked me.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
If you knew this shows really about films. We just
ok the question.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
It's the hook, I see, Okay, what.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
About being scared? What's the film that scares you the most, Eggo,
Do you like being scared?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Do I like being scared as a general concept? No?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Do I like?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well, I like being I don't as the general guns
are not interested. Yeah, I like being uncomfortable. I like
doing things that will make me uncomfortable because I feel
very alive when I do those things. I go, oh,
I'm I still have a pulse. But scared. No scary films.
Do I enjoying scary films? Yes, but I don't do spirits.
(25:34):
I'm not into spirits because I believe in them. So
I don't want anyone getting exercise like it can be
an an it kind of spirit. And I'm not referring
to the film, but it can be like there's some
entity that's kind of getting in people like smile too.
I just saw like it can be like that, but
it can't be like, No, there's demons, don't. I don't
want to dabble with demons. I don't want to do that.
(25:55):
And so, but I do like scary films. First film
that really scared me. I remember watching the movie Fear
on USA Network with Mark Yes, way too yeah, with
Resa Witherson and Mark Wahlberg Way too young. Because it
was on TV, and I was like very scared when
they tried to I remember being so terrified when if
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I'm remembering this correctly, they tried to like break into her,
like she was home alone for a weekend or something.
Am I mixing this film?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
It's like he's her boyfriend, but then she breaks up
with him and then he becomes like a stillker Is that, yes.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
But he like stalks her and then her parents are
something And this is where my memory will fail me,
but like her parents are out of town or something,
She's at the house by herself, and he's like trying
to break in and maybe brought a friend to scare her.
I just remember that really scaring me because I used
to be home alone a lot too, but I didn't
have a crazy boyfriend. I have any boyfriend. But I
was like, someone's going to try to do that to me,
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and what would my plan be? That or misery? I
remember being really scared of misery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
think I can which one I saw first, but those
I just remember, but fear I feel like I saw
multiple times and it's a film actually again, was just
talking to Keenan about last week. We talk about everything
me and Keenan, But it's a film. I was saying
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when Mark Wahlberg bangs on his chest outside of her house.
And then the next day it's like, look what your
dad did to me. I go, I can't believe he
would beat him itself up to be like your dad
did this to me. And I was like, that's a
true psychopath. My first encounter with a psychopath, I guess.
And then since then I've met many. To be clear,
(27:34):
I was about yea many in real life.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, what about crying? What's the film that made you cry?
The do you like her?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
First? I love to cry. I'm a pisces. I didn't
used to like to cry. I'm a big Yeah, I'm
a pisces, very emotional. But I didn't like crime for
a long time. I thought it was a signified weakness
until I was like nineteen and I go, I want
to cry. And I can tell you why I thought
it signified because I'm sure I've said it on another podcast. Why.
But anyway, that being said, first film to make me cry,
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which is why my favorite movie in theory is Man
on Fire. It was in eighth grade watching it stayed
up way too late, like staying up till two am
was radical, but I really had to finish watching this
movie and stayed up way too late. I think my
sister rented it from the Red Box. Remember when red
box was a thing. Yeah, I think she rented it
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from the Red Box. And I watched it and it
made me cry. And I remember in fifth grade Titanic
came out, everyone was like, this movie is gonna make
you cry. I saw it and I was like, I
feel nothing, and I was like, oh no, I'm my
biggest psychopath or a sociopath, but I basically, Man on
Fire is the first movie to make me cry. I
remember that very vividly, and then it became my favorite movie.
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On my college application, they asked, when they were trying
to figure out how to place you in a dorm,
what's your favorite movie? Man on Fire? Beautiful film? Yeah, beauty, terrible,
Rotten Tomatoes score terrible, terrible. Yeah, but truly, I don't
think that's right.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, I think that's right. What is the film that
you love most people don't like it? It is your
guilty pleasure. You're like, you're all wrong, and this film's amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I don't know if this is a guilty pleasure because
I think other people when I tell them this film,
and anyone who's heard me on any podcast at some
point I talk about this, other people shrug and go, sure,
it's good. They won't say it's terrible, but they go,
sure fine. And I'm obsessed with this film. I would
watch this film tonight after we get off this podcast,
(29:34):
and just and I'm not a person who casually watches films,
but the Town, I'm obsessed The Town, Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner.
It's a great film. But I do think people go,
you love the Town, And I can go on and
on about it. I remember everything about it. It's my favorite.
But people shrug and go, I mean, sure, fine, but
your favorite, And I go, yes, obsessed, I will die
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on that hill. It's an credible film. And yeah, yes, yeah,
it's my favorite.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Why did you not that I don't necessarily agree or
disagree see crying as a weakness.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Oh, it's because basically, I'm a pisces. I spent a
lot of time with my older siblings and they had
to babysit me a lot, as a lot of older
siblings had to. And anytime I'd cry, they be like
no one wants to see that. And then I was like, oh, okay,
you don't cry. That's not a thing. And that's the
time when all the your brain is forming and you're
(30:32):
making all these associations and you're it's those it was
during formative years, and so I was like, that's weak
because that's kind of what the messaging was there. So yeah,
but now I know that then they were kids. Yeah yeah,
and then I shut down. But now I'm very very
not shut down. I feel literally everything. I feel too
much and I think too much. I'm over overdosing on
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thinking and feeling both ends.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah, this is what makes you great.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
What is the film that you used to love but
you've watched it recently and you've gone, oh no, not
for me.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I used to think Urban Legend was such a good
scary movie. I was like, so good, And I rewatched
it recently to do someone else's podcast a couple of
years ago, and I.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Go, this is that is a perfect tinset scary.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
What though, I will say, opening scene, I don't know
if it's opening again. Remember she doesn't remember movies well,
but she doesn't early scene. Yes, she's a piscy. She
just feels, but I was in the back of a
car or I was not. I was in the back
of a car. The person in the back of seam
I'm putting myself in this movie. Do you remember the
scene where the person is in the back of the
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car and this girl goes to like the crappy, typical
scary movie trope gas station to get gas and the
dead of night it's pouring rain, and it's like, honey,
you should have done this during the day. That's my
first though, is girl he cuts to get gas during
the day, but she's She goes to get gas and
the gas station attendant looks really creepy. It's like, it's cool,
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it's stringy hair. Suspect in the music's building and he
says to come inside. Your credit card isn't working because
he had like taken it to swipe forward to go in.
She says come inside, and you're like, oh, he's trying
to kill her. So she gets in there and he
was like She's like it did work, and he's like, yeah,
I'm trying to tell you, and she runs out of
the gas station because she's like, this guy's trying to
fucking kill me, rate me whatever, and he's like, there's
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someone in the backseat of your car. But she couldn't
hear him. She's already off to the races down the dark,
windy road and there was someone in the backseat of
her car. I think that's lovely and brilliant. But that
movie otherwise is not good. But of course, if the
director of that film, a writer of that film did
want to put me in something, I would happily, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
What is the film that means the most to you?
Not necessarily the film film is good, but because the
experience you had seeing the film will always make it
important and special and meaningful to you.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
That's lovely. And I know that there's an answer to this.
It's got to be. So what's happening right now is
my brain is going through the list of movies my
family would see, like big family, like my immediate family
plus all the cousins, and we would spend all the
holidays together, so Christmas Thanks, I mean, we would go
see movies. And I think that was really special. It
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was never anything I wanted to see, yeh, And it
was more. And it's funny because now I look back
at this, those times really fondly, and the last several
years that we did get together, which were pre COVID
because now everyone's kind of off in their own land,
building their own families and their own traditions. The last
several years, I would go, I don't want to go
to the movies, and they would all go, you sure,
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and I'd be the one person who stayed home because
I'm like, I don't want to see that movie. And
it wasn't an active protest to be like, change the
movie because I think we should all see this one.
It was just like, I don't feel like going to
the movies. I don't want to sit through too a
half hours of that, and they, well, we're all going
and it's gonna be and I don't want to. But
it would be one of those holiday movies. It's not
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coming to mind right now, nothing's coming to mind in
this moment, but it would be a movie I saw
with my family during the holidays. I would think those
experiences were special in retrospect, especially.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
And the ones that you actually went to exactly those ones,
the ones that I stood, I went to, the ones
that I joined them for me me going and them going,
you sure, you don't want to come to a positive
see you guys get back.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Very nice to get a break from the family. I
have a Christmas and Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah, and I love them. And I am a bit
introverted too, so I'm like, it's just a nice now.
Like and I used to do all the cooking, and
I loved doing the cooking. That wasn't it. Like my
mom would make the turkey and I would do everything else.
So I think by that time I was also like tired,
and I'm like, I'd rather stay home and just sit
and chill or take a nap, then go to the
movies with the crew.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
So what is the film he most relate to.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I'm gonna say Lady Bird. I was adamant, really love
so Lady Bird. I remember watching that and thinking I
loved it so much. And I can't remember if that's
a controversial taker or not, because I feel like other
people don't get it. But I loved it so much.
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I called my mom after I watched and I said
thank you for everything. So basically, I grew up in
Baltimore and I was hell bent on going to school
in LA because I wanted to be an actor, though
I did not study theater or anything related to entertainment.
I was a science major. Just it's other, that's a
whole other thing. But I wanted to move across the
country to a place no one knew. But I was
so adamant about it. I like refused scholarships on the
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East Coast and I was like, I got to get
to LA and I had such culture shock when I
got to LA that I met all kinds of people
that I was like, oh my gosh. It took me
being eighteen and away from home and across the country
in this brand new place to go. My mom was
just trying to instill values in me and develop my character.
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And I get it now because we would butt heads,
not an abnormal amount honestly at all, but I saw
myself in that character and I go, that was me
so held on one getting away and going across the
country and then realizing, oh my gosh, Mom was right
in so many ways, and it was just trying to
make sure I became a decent human. And so that
one I called her after and I was like, thank
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you for everything. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Was she like, have you just watched Ladybird?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah? She knew. She was like it was Ladybird was,
I was like, yeah, I kind of.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Yeah. It's the scene where she calls her that is it.
That is like, it's really profound in the way and
it's the realization of where she's from and the pride
in that. That's very Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
I think so stunning stunning love a slice of life
film I love. I'm not a fantastical girly. I'll say
that again. That is not to say I won't be
in a fantastics when listening. Absolutely loves fantasy. I love fantasy,
but but my preference generally has been for a slice
of life generally or heist films casual. The thing about
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the town is that the thing about the town is
that it is rooted in reality. It's based on a
real Yes, it is a slice of life.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, what's the sexiest film you've ever seen?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Sexiest Ooh?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
I like this question, Well you're going to love this.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Oh gosh, okay, sexiest film I've ever seen? Oh man,
that's not the answer. Something came down those just because
it was like I just recently saw it, so I'm
like that's not true. Oh my gosh, I think crazy
stupid love. Right. Fossing's character in that film was just
so smooth. I would have been one of the girls
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he could want to get out of here. I would
have been one of the girls. I would have been
one of the girls at that Century City Mall location
that he asked, and I'd go, yeah, I'm down, I'm down.
That was he was so suave in that film. That
character was so swave, like he would have got me.
He would have got me with that.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
What always worried me from his point of view in
that film is he goes to the same bar every
night and he picks I'm like, you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
This is yes, it's.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
It's an airport bar. I get it.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Leave it sure, sure, dim dim lights at the airport bar,
people addressed to the nines. You know, here's the thing.
You make a great point, and it was that part
is very sleazy. But there's a time when, like there's
a time in every woman's life where just the smoothness,
the suave amante of a man, we'll get you. That's
not to say it's right, that's not to say it's
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your wisest choice, no judgment, but it was kind of like, honey,
pick a pick up, pick a different You're right, pick
a different bar. But he was incredibly smooth and confident.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
He was amazing in the bar. What I'm saying is
one of the women who had been squabamented by that bar,
I might head back to that bar and then someone else.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yes, I mean, I guess though, in those dynamics, and
given the way they would talk for all of ten
minutes and you go want to get out of here,
you got to understand what's going on. Both people have
to understand that this is not like, oh, we're starting
a relationship. This is very specific and very clear. You know,
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he's hit me with a couple of smooth, quippy remarks
and now is saying you want to get out.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Of here, and you want to get out of here?
And I mean that very specifically and clearly.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yeah, And I think so, I think you got it.
So if you go back to the bar the next
day and you see him doing the same thing, you
might feel icky. But you had to have known what
exactly was happening.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
I think I think that's fair. Now there's a sub categree.
I go, yeah, everyone gets this, So forgive me troubling
bonus worrying. Why don't a film you found a rousing
that you went, sure, you shit, oh very good? This
very good?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
A film a rousing because this character was a creep
And guys, forgive me, this is just off memory, which
we've already established. My memory for films is really bad.
But because this character was a creep, I shouldn't have
been aroused by this. I believe I may have been,
(40:30):
but I don't. Guys, forgive me, because I just don't
remember just how creepy he was. I know he was
a very bad man. But Nocturnal Animals Aaron Taylor Johnson's.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Character very very very bad. This is terrible. This is
the perfect, This is the nice perfect. You couldn't think
more terrible.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
That's that's bad, wrong, bad, bad, bad. But I left that,
But be like, who is that? Nocturnal Animals? For sure
that was inappropriately and.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Really impressed by that answer.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah, about how inappropriate it is?
Speaker 1 (41:12):
No, Listen, most people shy away from that question. They say,
a cartoon you went on in?
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Oh shit, I know that was terrible. I should ask
you to cut it out. I won't, though I'm like
standing on it.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeahswer, what is it? Objectively? The greatest film of all time?
Might not be your favorite film, but you guy, that
is the very best of cinema. Bear in mind you
don't remember films exactly.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Here, I'm going to say this because it's one of
my favorites, and I know you said it doesn't have
to be my favorite, but you think about it objectively.
Greatest film, Okay, I feel like I've seen something. There
was a period of time when my sister and I
were in our indie film bag and we were always
at the Landmark on the West Side, and I was
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going multiple times a week. It was like my whole personality.
And I'm sure there's a film in that time that
I would go Nope, that was perfect, top two bottom,
no notes whatsoever. I'm gonna say two things, and you
have to bear with me. But and remember, I don't
remember films, right, so I'm sure there's something I'm not remembering.
I'm gonna say I'm tempted to say even and I'm
(42:23):
gonna say Blue Valentine. I think Derek san France is
an incredible director, incredible, exceptional. I love how the actors
have to how they like really delve into the characters
before they even start filming and sort of start living
the characters' lives. That film I'm obsessed with. And when
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the Pandemic hit, I watched it again because at the top,
which people go, that's a weird one to pick, but
I go, yeah, it's kind of me. But I love
that film because it feels so real and rooted in reality,
and it doesn't end with a bow on it, like
that's what I aim to make, Like, I aim to
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do things like that where I go, this is simply
reflective of real life, and that film just doesn't end
with a bow. And the first time I watched it,
I remember thinking, man, Michelle Williams's character is such a bitch,
and it was a thing I used to argue with
people about and they'd go, no, well he became an
alcoholic and then he didn't have motivation and blah blah blahlah.
And I'm like, but he when she had this kid,
(43:29):
and he was like, you're my girl, I'm all in,
I'm taking care of I love you both. And I
rewatched it at the beginning of the pandemic to be like,
just to be like, I just know, I love this
film and let me watch something not quite company. But
it's comforting to me because I like it, and in
watching it a second time, I go or yeah, second time,
I go, oh, no, I get it, and I picked
(43:50):
up on things I hadn't before. But I also saw
I go, actually, this is a little more complicated, and
maybe he does suck in some ways. And so anyway
that I think is a perfect film top to bottom.
I think it's beautiful. I think the soundtrack is beautiful.
I just heard last week in a store I was shopping.
I heard the You and Me song by Penny and
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the Something, which is one of the key songs on
the soundtrack. The other thing I was gonna say, but
it feels so new and fresh that it might seem
like I'm just saying this because first thing that came
to mind was blue Valentine, period full stop. That's we're
going blue Valentine. I do just want to give a
shout out to honorable Mention, which I think we have
to be many years removed from it for people to
(44:31):
really I think they're appreciating it now, but I think
we have to be many years removed from it for
people to at least know that. I'm not saying this
because it's in recent memory. I think Anora is perfect
I agree. I think that is are you kidding me?
Perfect film? I love that I didn't recognize anybody, and
maybe that's my own ignorance. I didn't recognize anybody. I
(44:52):
love that this. I get kind of annoyed when a
movie is more than two hours. I'm a little like
this is self indulgent in a way that feel unkind
to the viewer in my opinion, honestly, and oftentimes it
doesn't need to be. You'll watch the thing. It's two
hours and forty minutes, and that didn't need to be
that long. But Honora, I was captivated the whole time.
The performances are phenomenal, the story and the simplicity of
(45:16):
the story, especially like when so much of it becomes
looking for a person. I don't want to say too much,
people may not, but like looking for someone and we're
in that for a significant amount, and I'm just I'm
still I'm in it with them. And then it's funny
and it's charming, and it's do I think it's sexy.
I don't know that I think it's sexy, but like
it's got all these levels and textures, and the performances
(45:39):
are so wonderful, and I think they earned their two
hour and twenty minute runtime for sure. And so yeah,
I think that's a perfect film. I do think that's
no notes. Yeah, you can have that.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
I'm going to give you sixty points for that.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Thank you, Thank you so much. What two points afford
me here in the afterlife?
Speaker 1 (45:57):
At the end, you get some tickets and you bring
them up to the counter and you can get some
some cuddly toys or candy flowers, anything, okay, very good,
signed baseball weird.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
I signed it, okay, not you do play?
Speaker 1 (46:16):
No, okay, okay, there's some shelving units if you want
to set up anything like that.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
Okay, great, wonderful, thank you, and a goblet. We can
get into logistics later. It's goblet. Randomly, what is the
film you could or have watched the most over and
over again, Dear Brett, Honey, it's gonna go ahead and
be the town, God bless you, God bless you. It's
or it's or its guess who. It's hard to say
(46:44):
between guess who. The Ashton Kutcher is always Adania remake
of Guess Who's coming to dinner? Either that or the town.
But I think the town has edged guess who out
at this point. Okay, Yeah, what's the worst film you've
ever seen?
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (46:59):
I think this person and is lovely and I've never
met them, so no offense. But I bet you secretly
he also thinks is bad. The worst film I've ever seen.
And I don't know if my memory is not serving
me right, but I mean actively this is this is
Street Kings. Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Oh, I don't even remember it. Well, never happened.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
You are one lucky duckling that I remember thinking, is
this fucking for real? I was in the theater. The
company I was with wasn't great either. I'm googling it
right now to be like, do I remember? Yeah, thirty
seven percent of Rotten Tomatoes. Even though Rotten Tomatoes said
that Man on Fire is not good, which I don't
agree with, Street Kings was one of the worst films
I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Okay, and I think everyone did their part, but I
was just like, what am I watching? That's but that's that's.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
Yeah, Okay, you in comedy. You're very funny, But what
is the film that made you laugh the most?
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Mmm? That's good. I'm gonna say this is the end
really really made me laugh. That's really funny, really funny movie. Ye,
Bridesmaids really made me laugh. And Dinner for Schmucks sucks
is it? Yeah, also really made me laugh. Yeah. So yeah,
(48:15):
those are my three off the top of my head.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
But this is the end.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
And the Disaster Artist was another one that I remember
just being like, this is fucking hilarious. But yeah, I
know it's supposed to say one and I've said three
and a half.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
It's okay. I liked that they were deep dives. Okay, okay,
so I forgive you, he guy, Yes, you've been a delight. However,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
However, when you were in your apartment like a shiny
cat and you were eating and eating and you were
following the light around the apartment, you're and you're just
eating crabcakes from Maryland and red velvet cakes and you
were eating and eating and thinking, you know what, just
following the sun, and he started to get round her
(49:00):
around you. You just started rolling around, following the sun
and just eating, eating, just like a cat. It's a
rolling around eating eat and you're like, this is pleasure.
You remember thinking this is lovely, this is real pleasure.
I'm not in any paint. This is a lovely thing.
Eating you uber eat some more. You said you're gonna
have to check it out the window because I can't
get down the stairs. And they chuck up some more marrying,
(49:22):
specifically marrying, and crab cakes and red velvet cake. You eating.
You have one more, you have one more little I
want my little Maryna, and you have you. I'll have
a little chip, one more little bite, and you buy
and your side explode, and everything all over your apartment
in the sunlight, in the darkness, all over everywhere dead.
(49:46):
And I'm walking past with a coffin. You know what
I'm like, No guys haven't seen. And I heard something upstairs,
sounded like a cat burst at the seats. I go upstairs.
There's there you are. Oh it's an absolute mess. Ego,
it's a mess. And yeah, like I'm picking bits of
you up and put you in. There is so much
(50:08):
more of you. You ate a lot of this stuff.
There's live crabs. I'm having everything you ate so far.
Some of them were still alive, us.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
Eating the shell, just breaking, biting right.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Into the cab, putting. I put all of you in
the coffin. There's more of you than I was expected.
I'm having to stuff you all in. It' certainly enough
room in this coffin for me to slip one DVD
into the side for you to take across to the
other side. And on the other side, it's movie night
every night. What film are you taking to show your
friends who are laughing in an intimate setting in heaven
when it's your movie night.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Go oh wow, my movie night in heaven. I'm going
to say, you know, I want to say the town.
I fear I'd get sick of it in heaven because
I've enjoyed so much on this side. I've enjoyed it
so much on this side that I'd go the moon
I want to take to my friends and show them
and we were laughing and enjoying. Gosh, I'm gonna say
(51:06):
the town. And so I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (51:13):
The town.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
I'm gonna say it's the town.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
You stick to your guns.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
I stick to my guns. I stick to the rivers
and the lakes that I am used to. It's gonna
be the town. You know what. I wouldn't want to
watch it over and over, so no, never gonna not
gonna say that, but it's it's just because I think
it's special the way I saw a lot and it's
something because My Old Asses a film I really enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
Maybe Love my Old.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
As My Old Ass is fantastic. I was weeping in
the theater as a New York City Lower East Side theater,
and there were some rowdy teens in the front row
who were talking at full volume the whole time. But nonetheless,
the film was so enjoyable and so beautiful and impactful.
I don't think it's gonna make my friends and I
(51:57):
laugh and laugh and laugh. On the other side. The
Town has its funny moments, and it's just what I've known.
It's a comforting film to me. I could see myself
taking that. I don't remember how that film, and I
actually kind of want to watch it today. I heard
it's on Netflix. American Gangster. I just care. I just
love Denzel He's such a brilliant actor, which is not
(52:19):
radical for me to say, but yeah, I would. I
would take The Town. We love the Town. The Town
is a phenomenal film, and that's going with me in
my burst body.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
I do thank you so much for doing this. Would
you like to tell people what to look out forward
to listen to any ego business coming up?
Speaker 2 (52:37):
Yes, what to look out for. I'll be on Saturday
Night Live. Sometimes I'm on, sometimes I'm not. As you
mentioned up top, Thanks Dad is my new podcast, relatively
relatively new. It's My Baby. It's a podcast where I
talk to people about their dads and then what I
hear from them about what they're like as parents. And
(52:57):
it's really special. I have really lovely conversation. So you
get to hear a lot of people you may be
a fan of in a capacity you have yet to
hear them. So go listen to that. Wherever you get
your podcast, it's called Thanks Dad. I'm on Instagram Eggy
boom e g g y b o o M follow me.
Why not for a nice time. I think that's it
(53:18):
for now and encourage I would encourage people to go
see Honora and My Old Ass. Actually no connection, but
Two Bangers. Those are really good films.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Oh that's I felt similarly to Lady Bird. I had
that feeling of specificity and I don't know the right
gossling way. I mean it felt like, oh, this, this area,
this place. Yeah, it felt so specific. I love it
so much.
Speaker 2 (53:43):
Yeah, it's it's yes, it was wonderful perfect. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
Hey guy Brett, you've been a delight.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
Thank you, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
Thank you so much for taking taking time out of
your hiatus.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
To do that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
Okay, thanks.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
So that was episode three hundred and thirty two. Head
over to the Patroon at patroon dot com forwards aspect
Goldsting for the extra fifty minutes of chat, secret and
video with Ego. Go to Apple Podcast, give us a
five star rating and write about the film that means
the most of you and my so love thing the
reader has with numbers of my namehber More and really
does love reading them. Thank you so much to Ego
for giving me her time. Thanks to Scruby's pip and
there's tracks some pieces of Network. Thanks to Buddy Peace
for producing it and for giving us such an incredible
(54:23):
Christmas bonus mix. Thanks to iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell's Big
Money Players Network posting it. Thanks Adam Richison for the
graphics and Lizzie Adam for the photography. Comes on me
next week for an incredible episode with a brilliant guest.
That is it for now, Happy New year. Everyone, thank
you for being here. I hope you have a wonderful time.
And that is it for now, so in the meantime,
have a lovely week, and please be excellent to each other.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
Back back back, back backs and tacks and back by
bass backs and backs, bass back, by base back fast
and by base back back back
Host
Brett Goldstein
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