March 5, 2025 • 47 mins
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Join your host Brett Goldstein as he talks life, death, love and the universe with the very, very funny sketco and champion of the comedy socials ZACHARIAH PORTER!
Zachariah might be one of those "if you know, you know" comics, because those who do know will have already been captivated and energised by his stunning work on the socials. But for those who do NOT know, friends, you are about to join an elite group who appreciate performers who provoke that "blurt" laugh response (healthier than it sounds). Zach is known for really fun character work and is embarking on the stage at this moment so if you're in those areas, do check the show. But for now, enjoy the ep which deftly moves around the subjects of snowbound New York, his customer service background informing his portrayals, his now very well known mum, how he and his boyfriend met and successfully found a way to collab with work (not always easy!), swimming and sexy chefs. You deserve it. Enjoy!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Look out. It's only films to be buried with. Hello,
and welcome to films to be buried with. My name
is Brett Goldstein. I'm the comedian and actor, a writer,
a director, a molecule, and I love films. As Roxanne
(00:23):
Gay once said, there is nothing wrong with wanting, Like
how I really want Wicked Part two to come out
sooner than it's meant to. I'll get you, Roxanne. Every
week I invite 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 evens.
But this week we have the comedian and TikToker. It's
(00:45):
mister Zachariah Porter. All episodes of Shrinking Season one and
two are now available on Apple TV. Get caught up
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(01:05):
dot com forward slash Brett Goldstein. So Zachariah Porter. You
might know him from his very funny sketches on TikTok
or his podcast Camp Counselors. He's been on tour for
a while now, the Strip Maltese Tour. You can see
him live. You will love him. I had never met
him before we recorded this on Zoom. He was so
much fun and I really think you're gonna love this one.
(01:27):
So that is it for now. I very much hope
you enjoy episode three hundred and forty one of Films
to be Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to
be Buried With. It is I Brett Goldstein, and I
(01:49):
am joined today by an actor, a writer, a TikToker,
a sketcho, a instagrammer, a stand up, a touring character, median,
a embodiment of family members, and of people in his office.
I wonder if they know. Please welcome to the show.
(02:10):
He's one of the great. I can't believe it's here.
It's zach a right Porter.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh my god, what an intro? This is your thing.
You're really great at an intro.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Brat, Thanks man, How are you? Where are you?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I'm good. I'm in New York.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It's snowed, so I'm snowed in over here today when
we're recording it as a super Bowl, which for me
doesn't mean much, but for a lot of people, it's
kind of a major.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, a big event. It's a big event for people
who care about such things.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, my boyfriend, he's from he's from Philly, so his
whole family they're going nuts over there.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Are they in it?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I don't think they're in it, but they they're they're
acting like they're in it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
They're acting over there.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
They're playing some money bets, they're making, they're doing parties,
and I'm over here chat with you.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I think this is where I'd rather be, to be.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Honest, this is this is the super Bowl part, this
is our super Bowl. Yeah. Now we've never met before.
I've seen your sketch finny funny stuff, and I'm very
curious you do very funny stuff. Of I'm assuming it's
your mom. Is your mom you're doing or it's a man.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It started out as my mom, and my mom will
tell you I've gone too far with it now, but
I think after she has a couple of drinks in
her it's the most accurate portrayal I've ever done. I
think it's it's an honest character and she's got to accept.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That at some point. Now, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I grew up in Massachusetts with a lot of colorful
people around me all the time, and in working in
customer service and just kind of listening and observing has
inspired that character and all my characters. And I'm very
inspired by chaotic women forty plus. That's kind of my
bread and butter right there.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, you're very good. Does your mom does she love it?
Is she offended? Does she say, well, obviously, I'm not
like that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You know, I think she loves it now because I
think she meets people that watch the videos and they go, oh,
you're the mom. She's like my' on the Street team.
She'll stop anyone at the bank and say, do you
know my son's on TikTok? And she'll she'll make them
pull out their phone and say, oh, that one's me,
that one's no.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So she absolutely loves it. Yeah, we have a good
time with it.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
It's been fine. That's great. I have a friend who
did a live sketch show, and in their sketch show,
I did this sort of ten minute routine which was
their mom drunk at a party, and her mom came
to see the show and absolutely did not spot it,
Like she was quite nervous, Like god, it's really like
word for word what she does. And I think she
was sort of didn't even mention it. It was just like, yeah,
(04:37):
that was a bit boring. That one the mom looking
in the mirror. Mom, that's what it is. No, she's
she's seen it. She's into it. It's funny.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I'm on tour right now and I have this part
in the show where I talk about my mom and
how like she's like the only woman I've ever met
that really should have a little bit more anxiety because
when she drink she says the most insane, inappropriate things.
And I have a show coming up in March, and
she is going to be there, and I'm like, maybe
I should just for that show we worked that bit
because I don't know she's gonna love it. But hey,
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it killed in Atlanta because she was seven hundred miles away, so.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Gotta I gotta be careful.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But yeah, that's interesting. I cooled my dad. I describe
my dad as a massive pervert in my stand up show,
and then when he finally saw it, he was like, yeah, legend.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I think they like it.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I think what they see it in a room for
people laughing, I think they're like, well, maybe it's a compliment.
And to me, you know, what is I think just
kind of copying them and telling their stories and impersonating them.
It's a form of flattery in my opinion. So she's
on board now, thank god.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I think so. And it means you've really been paying
attention to her. Yeah, I think that's it. It's like
she is seen whatever, for good or bad, she is seen.
She could have been something. What is your tour? What
is your show? You know?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
So it's called the Strip Maltese Tour.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, and it's my love letter to growing up in
the suburbs and growing up around a group of crazy people.
I didn't move to New York until I was twenty six,
so I have like a real kind of foundation in
New Bedford, Massachusetts is like a small fishing city south
of Boston, and I loved where I was from. And
I think the show kind of encapsulates all of just
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the funny observations of what it's like to not live
in a city and to kind of treat your hometown
as if it is like the epicenter of all things culture, drama,
fun and whimsy.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And that's how I still view where I'm from.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
So it's a lot of stand up and then I
do these character act outs, which are just.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
My favorite thing to do in the world. Is a
lot of costume and wigs.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Getting in and out of the costumes in a minute
thirty seconds is truly the biggest challenge.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What's happening on stage in the minute thirty.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, you know what's I come from a like a
land of video. So I've made these like highly produced
kind of like tiktoks or Instagram reels that play unlike
kind of like a movie screen, and I'm trying to
like set the tone for the next kind of character
to come out.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
This what I'm doing right now.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
She's every girl at your high school reunion and she's
like twenty years post out of high school. And she
comes in and he's like ripped jeans and a baby
fat jacket with these bangs and these like like like
slouch boots and backstage people don't know that I'm dripping sweat,
shoving socks into a bra to come out to then
smack a pack of Marlboroughs and apply it lip gloss
(07:26):
and be like, oh my gods, you guys we hear.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I can't freaking believe it.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Like, but this is a woman I worked with at
an old Navy Friday nights who would begged me to
bring her home and then would smoke in my car
after I said she couldn't.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So it's like, now now I'm just using the material
for my whole life. So it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's great, that's so good. Is this your first took?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I did a small kind of version of it last year.
So this was never like the plan for me. I
was I was in to school for marketing, absolutelyted. It
is a non profit. Wow, nonprofits are not for the week,
and I just I always wanted to entertain and then
started making videos. And after doing it for a couple
of years, I people on mindset that were like, hey,
why don't you just do it for an hour? And
(08:09):
I wrote it and I was terrified to start performing it.
And uh, the reception has been good or people are
just really nice to me. But it's been really fun.
So it's I'm my first year of ever touring so
done like twenty shows, So.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You've only been performing live for a year two years
a year? What I know? That's that right? Well?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I think you either like love the attention or you
feed off that audience and you're and you're good at
like responding or you're not. But you know, I worked
in restaurants and I kind of feel like working in
a restaurant it's just doing like an extended set the
entire time.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
That's a show. Yeah, it is a show.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, And I think it prepared me for all this,
to be honest. So thank god for eight years in
restaurants in the trenches.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That makes sense. And do you have an opener or
is it just you? My boyfriend's my opener? No, so
how does that work?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
It's a family affair over here. No, we have a
podcast together. It's called Camp Counsel's Podcast. And the funniest
guy I've ever met my entire life. Because my jokes
are like low hanging. It's a lot of physical, it's
a lot of act out and he's so cerebral.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I'm like, he's the writer I wish I could be.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So when he starts off the show, which is incredibly difficult, right,
you're entering his space and trying to set the tone
he is just he lights him on fire and he
gets them thinking and then their brain power can shut
off because now they can just dumb it down for me.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So it's like it's great and you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I was like, he came on the first couple of
shows for me last summer and I was like, you
should do this, you should open. He was nervous and
I was like, listen your backstage. You can get a
check or you can just keep coming. And he was like, well, yeah,
I might as well make some money while I'm doing it.
And it's great because now it's like my best friends
my boyfriend. But now we work together on this live
performance and it's fun. How long have you been together
as a couple four years? It feels like longer than that,
(09:52):
though it's the last couple of years. It's a stretch time.
How did you get together and we're working together before that?
Did you have the podcast first? No, we've had the
podcast meme out on Instagram. What a love story beautiful?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I know.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I know he found me on his Explore page, which
seems diabolical in a little way who's on their explore.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That's a weird way to find somebody.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And he claims, he claims, I just popped up and
he liked a couple of floors before I was doing anything,
so it's kind of random.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And then I DMed him and I.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Said, you know, like my photos and not message me
with the kind of guy are you?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Is this your morals? And then it was love.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
It was love fucking the algorithm was cube D set
you up?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
They just said gay people in a hundred fifty miles
because he was in Philly, So we did a little
long distance during COVID and then we moved here together
in twenty twenty two, and then we started the podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And now it's like a content house over here.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
He's filming upstairs. He's like, you doing that podcast. I'll
be upstairs, Okay, keep it moving. What's he does he
do stand up? No, he doesn't do stand up. Now
he does a lot of observational comedy. He does like
these like reactions to crazy houses on Zillow and does
these like really well crafted jokes, extremely conscious. He does
that kind of stuff. And now he's writing, so he's
(11:05):
really smart.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
This is so unusual to have a couple that do
all this together and still like each other. How do
you Is there any part of you with each other
that's competitive, that gets jealous or is it, Oh, just
you love each other and you want the best for
each other.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I want the best for him and he wants the
best for me, and I think our opportunities have come
in different directions. But there's no jealousy at all, thank god,
you know. But we don't get along all the time.
I'm a very intense person, and I think I say
what I mean and it can come across a little
too I don't know rough and he.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Thank god, he can accept that.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And I think we balance each other out in that way,
because I think he's sometimes a little.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Bit more quiet and reserved.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
But people think all the time, because we do everything
together that we're just like constantly in a love spell.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm like, no, we fight like fucking dog some days.
I can't help it. But I think, you know what,
doing this.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Life is really rewarding with somebody who gets it and
even wants the same kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So it works out in that right.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh nice fucking love story. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to
say this because I forgot to tell you something. And
I've been so moved by your love story. But you died.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You're dead, so this was just this was just the
intro called to death. Yeah you got me.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Oh my god, you're dead, buddy, at the age of
so much.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's a good gun. No, that's not the way I
want to go. Please please, how was it?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
How did you die? Up to you?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I think my biggest fear of dying has always come
from drowning. So I think it's only right that I drowned.
Where and where and how and why? And who did
someone drive? I think it was myself. I think it
was my own mistake. I'm the youngest of four, and
I'm the only one to never get swimming lessons. Shout out, Sue,
what's going on with that? She has no straight answer,
(12:54):
She has no answer for that.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
How many your siblings? Oh? Boys, girls? What's what's the
what we're looking at?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
My oldest two siblings are ten years and nine years
older than me, and my brother called my sister Catlin.
And then my brother Jackson is two and my other
better Jackson, is two years older than me.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
His name is Jackson. So I am the youngest, the
most spirited.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And they're synchronized swimming at Christmas and you're just standing
on the edge.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
They're phenomenal swimmers. And I also grew up at the beach.
I grew up on the ocean, and it's very tense
for me. And it's a source subject because everybody thinks
they can teach you how to swim.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, I think I could teach you.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I promise you can't because I could.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
There's something you know, when you split limbs as a kid,
that's all like drummers get really good. I lock up
and most walk weird or something. I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You got two arms, Well that's butterfly. You could do butterfly.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I'm doggy paddling to the edge of the pool and
then I'm catching my breath. So I think drowning would
be the way. And I've heard it's like it's nice,
But how does anyone even know that?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
This is the question. There's a book called The Perfect Storm,
on which the film The Perfect Still Space, and in
it they took it's like a thing that happened, And
in it there is a description of death by drowning
and he says, your last breath, your lungs are like desperate,
so they inhale and inhale water flood your lungs with water.
And then apparently the last moment is the biggest high
(14:17):
of your life. But I'm like, who you tell you that?
Because then they died?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
And also have you had a bigger high? Like have
you never had a high in your life? I feel like,
is that the biggest?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Like that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I would need to hear like someone who's very well
versed in drugs, like, yeah, I don't know under like
talk about that a little bit more. But that's why
that's also what I've heard as well. I think it's
going to be the way that gets me in the
end because I've always been the most afraid of it.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
So it would seem poetic in a way.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Do you think that you died because I was one
hundred percent convinced that I could teach you to swim,
and I insisted that I did it, and you drowned
just to prove a point.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
We were in some sort of like rip current in
the ocean and you said, no, you can, you can
push through it, and then yeah it okay, yeah, and
then you and then you threw some flowers or something
for me for my body, and that's at least let's
make it look sweet.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Oh, it'll be very sweet. I have no doubt about that.
But I feel I will feel a bit guilty. But
at the same time, I'll also be like, I'll say
at your funeral, and I'll be like, I know you
will hate me, the porters. But at the same time,
surely he could have learned. Like I just couldn't get
my head ron. I just refused to believe I couldn't
(15:28):
teach him to swim.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And the sick thing is my mom would come up
to you. She my mom would come up to you
and she would say, you know what, it's not your
fault because why couldn't the boy swim? Someone should have
got through. So, yeah, that's the only way from God.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I think that's the.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Way for me. Your mum will hug me and go.
He was a stubborn asshole.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
She would, she absolutely would. She's always got some choice
words from me. But I love it to death.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Do you worry about death, Zecher? Right, Oh, I know
it's coming.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I think I've accepted that I can happen at any point,
you know, I think I was worried more worried about
death five ten years ago when I didn't know what
I was supposed to be doing. And I feel like
I'm really doing something that I'm proud of and that
I love, so that I have some sort of like
if it all were to end in a flash, I
would be more okay with it because there's some sort
of proof that I contributed what I always dreamed of doing.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
But I'm not ready to go yet.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Come on, So, yeah, I think I have a healthy
fear of death, okay, But I'm also I believe in
something else beyond this in some.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Sort of way.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Tell me what do you think it is.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I grew up really religious, which has kind of stuck
with me in a way, and I'm like, I'm not
like a religious person now, but I think I'm spiritual
in a sense. And I think. I always tell my
boyfriend he doesn't believe anything I go. I at least
if I go, something's happening for me after. I don't
know what it is, but I think there's a continuation
of life or maybe some sort of reincarnation moment that
would be pretty fierce. I think i'd come back as a.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Little dog or something I'd be into that you wouldn't
come back as a dog that a dog like a
handbag dog.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, like a nasty chihuaha like that, like was a puppy.
Was cute and then it got a little scruffy, but
they were like, we already have it, and then it
took a personality higher.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But for a dog, that's kind of like where I'm
looking to do.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Okay, I can see that. And in the gap between
your death and you coming back as a little handbag dog, chia,
what happens in the gap or the instant just switch
out of it immediately?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh my god, I prayed it. I prayed that it's instant.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
But I think if I like look at it among
I it's almost like particles, you know. I think it's
almost like that like circuit board where you're like floating
into something.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And I think it's I've always thought it.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Was an easier way to live your life if you
feel like there's something else coming next, because then there's
some like stakes to it all and it makes you
a better person. It's like my like running conscious. I
think if there's something coming next, yeah, it like keeps
me kind of keeps me grounded stops me from being
an asshole, right, I got to keep that karma flowing.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. Well, there is a gap
between the chiua and when you drown because of and
trying to teach you to swim. And in that gap
there's a heaven, can you imagine? And it's filled with
your favorite thing. What's your favorite thing?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
My favorite thing is going out to eat with my friends.
That's like my favorite if I can do that at
every moment of day, just being at a restaurant with
my friends with good food. Oh my god, if Heaven
was just a big old restaurant.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Please it is. What's the restaurant? Cheese cake factory?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Wouldn't be upset? Be upset if it was, you know,
probably because they have everything you want?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Sure, listen, you want choice, you go cheesecape page, am
I right?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
They have it all and they do everything. Maybe not
the best, but I'm never leaving upset ever. So yeah,
let's make Heaven one big cheese And honestly kind of
feels a little ethereal in there with the decor.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah. So Evan is a giant cheese cake factory and
it's filled with all your friends and they're chat away
and they're so excited to see you. They're such big fans.
They want to know everything. They've missed you so much,
but they want to know about your life through film.
And the first thing they ask is, what's the first
film you remember seeing? Zachariah Porter.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
First film I remember seeing was a Disney movie called
Oliver and Company Billy Joe.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It was like Billy Joe Loves Great, Yes Please.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I thought it was phenomenal, and I've rewatched it like
lately with my nieces and nephews, and I thought it
was still holding up. But there was this character in
the movie. Her name was georgiap and she was a
poodle that wore legwarmers.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
And when I was a little flamer, like four years old,
already so in tune with being a gay man, I
remember seeing that poodle and saying, this is cinema, this
is the stories I need to be told.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I loved it.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I loved and the music in that movie is really
fun and it's so New York and it's billy It's
a great movie.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
What should I were rare? It's a fucking bad city.
Joe as yes please, Yeah, wonderful film. That was such
a good one for me. Great great first film. Do
you say it with your three siblings?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yeah, because I was. It was one of theirs.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I think it came out, yes, And I was born
in ninety five, so it was already like a staple
in the house. And we had a lot of vhs
is at the time, all those like classic Disney PSSes.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
But that was the one I.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Always gravitated towards because I would tell people it was Oliver,
but it was simply Georgiette every time, just waiting for her.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
No, I love I love the Dodgeta. Wait, that's kind
of a yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
With all my movies, there's kind of that wink wink
in all of them in a certain way or another.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
What about crying? Are you a cryer? What's the film? Amazing?
Cry of the most?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Oh, any movie that can make me cry is a
hit for me. The one that comes to like, I
don't know. The strongest memory of crying during.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
A movie was this movie came out not too long
It was called spoiler Alert.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Okay, I don't know if did you see that with
Jim Parsons.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I didn't see this.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Oh my, so I was invited to a screening of it,
so I was room for people. Fantastic film, and then
it was so gut wrenching, and I didn't want to
cry publicly because I was like, definitely a movie anyone
should watch on a couch in your home. But I
remember like bruising my hand from pinching it so hard
to not cry. But it's just like beautiful love story
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about this gay couple in the early two thousands, and
like this I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Jim Parsons is just so.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
He's almost like embarrassed of himself in a really sad
way and can't expect anyone to give him the love
that he doesn't think he deserves love. And it kind
of continues on and then ben Aldridge gets cancer later
in the movie and they end up getting married.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's based on a true story.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Sally Field is in it as one of the mothers,
and the ending is so gut wrenching. Anytime where someone's
dying in a hospital bed and the other person gets
into the bed with them, I can't. And that was
at the moment where he could finally say all the
things he wanted to say and let go. And then
you know, the real kicker with you think it's done,
then the credits roll and they start showing the real
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photos of the real people. It was beautiful though, and
it's one of those like slice of life kind of movies.
Those ones are forever my favorite. And I just I
left the theater bloodshot eyes. If I looked around everybody else,
Thank god, everybody else had the same reaction I did.
And Jim Parsons is really really a great actor. So
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I loved I loved that movie. Brilliantnounce it's never come up.
Well good, well done, well done. I'm just saying, well done.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
What is the film that scared you the most? Do
you like being scared?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I like when scary movies are about things that I
don't feel like are real or they're not as obtainable,
you know what I mean, Like when there's like pathogen movies.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
That stuff really scares me. But the movie that.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Scared me the most ever was Hereditary And did that
scare you?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I mean, I've talked about it too much in this podcast.
That is the film that scared the shit out of
me the most in the last thirty years. Scared the
shit out of it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I saw it opening weekend.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, and I didn't even know it was going to
be what it was, but I just am like such
a diehard Tony Kollect, like she is just an amazing actress.
And I got so stoned before this movie. And I
go in there with a twenty piece of chicken nugget
and I'm eating on my lap and really quickly in
the movie we get to that walnut scene where she's
chopping like the walnuts for the brownies. Instantly I'm like, something,
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I'm not hungry now, I'm like kind of like uneasy,
and then it was a panic attack the rest of
the movie and I just, oh my god. It was
just it was beautiful. It was so and you know
what kind of suck stupped for me a little bit
was I had such a visceral reaction to that and
in such an amazing way that when I saw Midsommer
for the first time, I didn't get it. And I
think I was just comparing it too much to what
(23:36):
Hereditary was that I had to give that like literally
four years or so to come back and be like,
oh no, I actually.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Do appreciate this film because I was like, it's good.
No ditary.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It's fucking terrifying.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
It is. It's beautiful tale.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It's like, oh my god, what is the film that
you love? Critically? It is not acclaimed. Most people don't
like it, but you love it unconditionally. You don't care
what they say.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
It comes up every year because I won't stop talking
about it, and it's Christmas with the Cranks. I think
it is a fanomenal movie. Jamie Lee Curtis, Tim Allen.
It's like probably two thousand and two, yes, and it's
about the daughter. She goes away and they're gonna skip
Christmas and the whole town goes nuts. I believe it
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actively has five percent on Rotten Tomatoes, which I can't
even fathom that people have the lack of taste to
give it that score. I love it so much. I
dressed up for Christmas as every single character for Instagram.
I did like a whole photo shoots them. It's just
it's such a funny movie and it feels like my
character is like Jamie Lee Curtis is just this like
(24:46):
overbearing mother and a tight Christmas sweater who's trying to
get laid and is very neurotic and is hiding from
the towns people trying to like basically pitchfork them for
trying to skip Christmas. Oh my god, Tim Allen, really
I don't. I think I would vibe with him on
a personal level. But his attachment to good Christmas films
is undeniable.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
That is, he's got a knack for him.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
He does love a Christmas movie and he's very good at.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And that's my dream is to write a Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I think you could do it. But then I was
I think you could swim. So what do I know?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
That movie?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That one for sure. I have one more? Can I
say another?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I also love the movie Why Did I Get Married?
Have you seen that movie? So Crazy? It's a Tyler
Perry movie.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I have not seen it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
It's a Tyler Perry movie.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
And it's about four couples to go to a mountain
and they just all of their deep, dark secrets kind
of just unveil in this crazy scene. And there's Tasha
Smith in it, who has this big monologue in it,
and she basically starts pulling the fingers at everybody. And
to me, I think that that was an Oscar Award
winning performance.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And then to everybody else you're like, oh yeah, that
movie is good, But that's a movie I will watch
a lot for like my character stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I kind of like those very caddy dramatic moments, and
I think that inspires me for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Maybe you could do it, Maybe you could do the show,
and you could swim. I believe.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
There's a tide changing with the swimming and with this,
with this interview thing, it's like this podcast, we're shifting
now there's some belief.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
What it's on the other hand, a film that you
used to love but you've watched it recently and you thought, oh,
I don't love this anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
This was such a hard question because I serially like
I think, I think I have a lot of the
same kind of stuff, like same taste level. But there
was a movie that I watched that my boyfriend was
obsessed with that's like a cult classic that I was like, Oh,
this didn't hold up at all in my opinion, and.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
That was I Know what you did last summer.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Mm hmmm. I used to love it. I haven't seen
it recently. What's what's its crime other than running over
a fisherman?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, right there in that plot line, it's I think
very overact and it's so unbelievable, and I like the
campy kind of horror, like I love scream I think
screams amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
But there's this one scene where I forgot who it is.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Someone's like being murdered in a theater above everybody else
on the balcony and she's screaming and no one's hearing it, and.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
That just took me out of it.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I'm like, can someone one head isn't going to turn
She's it's.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Not that loud in there, but he was talking up.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
He's like, oh, it's one of the best, one of
the best, and I've always heard of it. And I
was really excited to be blown away and prepared for
it to be kind of silly.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
But I don't think it was that good.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
And then they got a reboot for a TV show,
so I think I'm alone in this one.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
But I'll stand on business.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I don't care. What is the film that means the
most to you? Not necessarily the film is good, but
the experience you had seeing the film will always make
it important to you. Zachar rya Port.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It was Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban. I
grew up really religious. It is the best one, and
my parents would never allow me to see stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
What kind of religion does that matter?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
It was Christian, but it was. It doesn't. It's just Christianity.
But I think my church.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
When Harry Potter was kind of like coming up, it
felt like it was like Witchcraft, which I feel like, okay,
they're whatever, but it's not really like okay.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So my friends in school would read it, but I
wasn't allowed to ever read it.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
But I had a babysitter who showed me all these
movies that she knew that I would love, but I
couldn't tell my parents. So she showed me like Labyrinth,
which I like loved, and then and then we watched
the first two Harry Potters. And then that's when the
third one came out in movies, and we went to
the theater one night. She said, ob take the kids
(28:40):
that the movies didn't tell them what movie, and she
took us and she was like a high school student,
and we went in. And anyone who's like seeing those
movies knows that there's such like a shift and everything
when that one happened. So like just the way it's
it's more adult, the filming of it It's just so
much bigger and I was not expecting it. So when
I left that movie theater, I I remember just like
(29:00):
feeling like I was different for the first time ever,
Like you don't see a movie you feel different. That
was the first one. I was like, oh, I'll never
be the same after this movie. And it's still my
favorite of all Where's my letter come on?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That's the best one as well.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah, it is just a shift in the whole franchise
at that point.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
What is the film you must relate to.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I'm sure people have talked about it on here because
it's just such a beautiful film, But Ladybird has always
had such a special place in my heart. It's just
it's just it changed. It changed everything.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Like Sarsha Nan is such a phenomenal actress, but there
was just so many like parts of that film that
I relate to. From a family dynamic, I think those
are like my favorite kind of movies or about family dynamics,
And I've always had It's funny because like, my mom
is my biggest muse, but I've had the most challenging
relationship with her because we are so different, and I've
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always wanted her to be a little bit different than
what she is. And as I get older, I think
the easiest way to kind of cope with that is
meeting people are there and not expecting people to follow
the guidelines that you put in front of them. But
especially at that time in my life, I felt so
attached to like that narrative, like wanting to get out
and be something and having this critical lens on you
that almost felt damaging in a way. But looking back
(30:15):
as I got older, I'm like, this is just the
product of who she is, as Ladybird finds out her
mother is and she's just doing her best. So it's
kind of got wrenching in a way, but it's also
got like so many like great funny, uplifting moments. It
kind of encapsulates how I felt my life was at
that point for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
So are you close with your three siblings? Do you
have favorites?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
My sister for sure is my like number one obviously,
but like yeah, and she knows it. And my brothers
are really close.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
It's like I come from a family that I have
very different beliefs than a lot of them. You know, politically,
we couldn't be more divided, which I think a lot
of people can relate to like you don't. You don't
always have the same matchup of like lifestyles as people.
You got to love them where they're at. But my
sister has always championed me and never made me feel
like weird. Because I'm not joking, Like there was never
(31:06):
a moment anyone's life that I no one thought I
wasn't gay. Like I was always very flamboyant and now
I've used it to kind of like my advantage. But
she's always the one who just never made me feel
like I had to like butcher it up, you know
what I mean? I could just be myself with around her. Yeah,
my bestie. Uh, what does she do? What is that private?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I don't think she's a corporate events manager. So nice,
real luxurious, that's nice. What is the sexiest film you've
ever seen? Zachar rya Porza, let's not mess about what's
the sexiest one? Well, Cruel Intentions is so hot, right,
(31:45):
it is such like a sexually charged movie, and it's
so unapologetic about it and it's inappropriate, but it's so right,
Like it's like I don't know how they made like
some sort of like like line about incest, like a
plot in it that we all kind of just like great,
like I don't brushover like it is so weird, but
oh my god, even like Sma Blair in that movie
(32:08):
is so like just everybody is on their worst behavior,
and it's just like the blueprint for like what a
good team, sexually charged movie should be. Oh my god,
I rewatched that this year and I was like, this
movie is better than I even remember it.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, slightly unfortunate that you just tell me how much
you loved your sister before you picked a film about incest.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Lucky for me, I'm gay and I don't love my
brothers like that, so I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah, I likely when the brother and sister really fucking
going at you. I don't know. It just seems fun.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
The way that like we can't deny that there was
a chemistry, but to it like it's sick, but and you.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Know it's funny.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Half that cast was on I know what you did
last summer and I hated them in there, So it's.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Like just like thought bull of a bit.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Reese Witherspoon too, Oh my god, she is such a
babe in that movie.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
And then Joshua Jackson was.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Gay in that movie so hot in that movie too,
Just what an all star cast. And then Christine Barnski
is the mom in it and she says the most
ridiculously think like some of the lines that movie you
can never say now, but they're just, oh my god,
laugh out loud, funny, like it's just really cook movie.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
There's a sub category to this question, traveling Bone is worrying.
Why don't a film you found a rousing but you
weren't sure you should? Zecher what you got?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I thought, And I forgive me. I don't have to
say his name. I thought.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Ralph Phineas in the menu was like, do you mean right?
Very sexy? The d is that Ralph?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Ralph? How do you say his first name?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Right about Ralph? Right?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah, Okay, he's really he's really confusing me. Her Ray
Fines in the menu very very alluring to me, and
I kind of felt like he wasn't That wasn't the
intention of it, but I did think he had some
some sort of control over me with those burgers. It's like, okay,
I was getting a little wound up over there, and
(34:14):
it was he's like literally destroying the entire place and
murdering people. And I was like, all right, let him
do it.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
So you like let him cook. You like being in
a restaurant and you like a chef that's fucking telling
you what's what? I might always kill you.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yeah, because I think you know, it's funny that you
say that.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
I think when you work in restaurants like those are
the only people that can really tell you what to do,
Like when you're a server of bartender, it's kind of
an even playing field. There's like some like hierarchy, but yes, Chef,
there's actually a lot of meeting behind that there is,
And I think that was he is.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yes, Chef is the Bear the sexiest show you've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I don't think it's the sexiest show I've ever seen,
but it's it's I do that too. I'm not upset
either way. Just get me in the kitchen, honestly, in
the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I also thought of a I thought of a sexy
female counterpart that I always thought was like really pretty,
But I think it's this in Gremlins.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I always thought the female gremmory was kind of a deep.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yeah, Gremlin's two when she was in that cheet up
or the bikini, I thought, if I swung that way,
maybe maybe that would that would.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Do something for me.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, that's a very good looking gremlin. What is objectively
the greatest film you've ever seen, not maybe your favorite,
but the greatest, the pinnacle of cinema?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
I don't know, because it's like you, I want to
like Godfather b that's I don't That's not what I
really feel. I think the Prestige is just an incredible movie,
like jaw dropping?
Speaker 2 (35:51):
But is is that in that category?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
And to me, it's in that I'm saying, in my
category that is objectively just.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I think so insane. It's brilliant, and it's brilliantly made,
and pretty in the act to this brilliant.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
It's brilliantly made.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
The casting is just insane, and the twist it takes
at the end it almost feels like it's too much,
but just enough that I didn't I don't hate it,
like the finest line of being like I can't stand this,
but oh my god, it's a movie that I like
can sit back and be like, yes, this is what
I look for.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I really like in that film when she's like, sometimes
I look at you and I see the love in
your eyes, and sometimes I sometimes it's not there. And
at some point she says something and he goes not today.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
The setups for that, for everything to unfold later in
the movie is just it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
So good, great answer. What is the film that you
could or have watched the most? Iver? And Iver again?
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Everyone that knows me personally knows that it's August Osh County,
which it sounds like a job.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
No, I get it. It's all your characters around word table.
I get it.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
It is the master class of family dynamics and batshit
crazy women. It is just heavy hitters. I was thinking
about Tay and I also think it's crazy. It's three
Julia's Julia Roberts, Julian Nicholson, and then Juliette Lewis, who
are all the sisters, Margo Martindale, and then Meryl Street.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
These are just the women. We don't even have, not
even the men in the conversation.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
But I remember seeing it for the first time and
thinking like, this is the most beautiful film I've ever
seen made in Meryl Street going at her a game.
I love it so much that I then had to
go see the stage production when she's based off of
So I've seen the Plant as much as much as.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
I love it now, but I watch it all the time.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
I know it's on Netflix, and I actually own it
on Amazon like Prime. I like bought the movie because
I'm so afraid that I'm going to lose it at
some point. It's just it's like my go to, especially
when like me to like feel charged up about doing characters.
Oh my god, when she's got like her little blue
pills and she gets tackled in the movie, so crazy.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
I'm running it.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
But now it's like, oh my god, I love Juliet Lewis,
who when she says like, yeah, this is one line
she says all the time. She's like in the movie,
she's like going on her honeymoon after the wedding that's
coming up.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
And she's like, we're going to belieze. Wouldn't that sound nice?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
And they bring it back at this traumatic part in
the movie and she repeats it again. I'm like, oh,
it gets me. That movie is everything to me. It's
my favorite movie ever.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
That's great. Did you like the play as much having
started with the film.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Well, I wish I could I wish I could say
I think it was great. So what I love about
that film too is that it's the planes and it's
like this like lifestyle that I can't relate to because
I've never been out there and that kind of emptiness
and the loneliness of it being out there, And I
think the play does its best efforts to put you
in that scene. But I like the movie so much better,
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which I feel like some people probably disagree with.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
But it's a movie outfield. People talk about it.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, it wasn't massively taken to as a film, I
feel unfairly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
To me, it was good. I'm the one out here.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah. And it was John Wells directed it. He's one
of my favorite people, John Wals who did for Starters.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
He did.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Yeah, I'm not from I'm not familiar. Maybe I should
like look into John Wells and what else he's making because.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Here right, absolutely, what is the worst film I've ever seen? Zacharya,
This makes.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Me feel bad me too, be nice.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
I can only think, like, in the past year, there
was a movie I didn't care for.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
It was Driveaway Dolls.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Oh, yes, okay.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
I think the premise was really great and I think
it just had. It didn't deliver on a lot of
what it could. Like a lesbian crossroad country crime drama,
was a comedy, sounded so funny, and I think Beanie
Feinstein was amazing, and the rest of it was kind
of like it just never never got there for me.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
So I'm sorry. I feel bad.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I say, that's ok you were very nice, It's okay.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
What is you in comedy? You're very f You're on
tak for God's sake. What's the film that made you
laugh the most? Sucker? You know?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
I think the obvious one. I always like go to,
like the funniest movie.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
I always say Bridesmaids because it's just like a masterpiece
in Kristen Wig was like my that was like my
favorite cast of SNL was growing up with that. But
a movie I think once again, it all goes back
to family movies.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
I really love My Big Fact Greek Wedding.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
I think it's gotten so many incredible lines in it,
and just that casting her having her real family in
it too. That movie makes me laugh out loud from
starting to finish. For what fifteen years later, I'm still
just really in love with that movie.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
So for sure that have you seen and do you like?
The sequels? Are the three sequels?
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Two Secrets, there's two and three. I haven't seen three
because two was a little difficult for me.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
But it wasn't bad.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
It just what was the what was the premise of too?
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I don't even remember. I think they go back to Greece.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
For someone else's wedding, the kid's wedding, something like that.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
The kids are in it. I don't even remember because
it came out so long ago. I remember Joey footone
comes back and he's now a silver fox in it.
But yeah, I know, the kids are grown up and
She's sequels are difficult, you know, but I understand why
they're made. But they always leave me wanting more as
everyone else. But the first one I think is.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Just a master's Okay. I like that for you, Zacharya Porter,
you have been a delight. However, when I maybe arrogantly,
I don't think it was arrogance. Maybe it was that's
all a little bit hubrist, they might say. I was like,
I get that you think you can't swim, and I
get you think you can't be talked to swim, But
I can teach you to swim. I'm a good swim
(41:39):
And also, I don't think it's that hard. It's not
like learning to surf. Surfing is hard, takes work. Swimming's
fairly straightforward. So I take you out to the sea,
we get a sea. You're scared, and I'm just I'm like, listen, man,
it's honestly, it's fine. You can doggy batter, right, you
can dogy better. And you're showing me a doggy batter?
Is this good? And I go, look, it's just one
(42:00):
at a time. You take one arm, you put it
and then you put your head in. And you're scared
to put your head and I go that. Just hold
your birth, take your breath and put your head and
just for five seconds, we'll get used to that. And
you keep your head. No, I don't like it. And
I'm like, it's fine, man, you're going honestly and holding it.
I've got you, you know, in the shadow. Anyway, you swim,
You swim and you put two eyes and you have
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your face out. You put your face up, you put
your face up, you're swimming. I'm like that, Zachariyah, you're
doing it. You're doing it, and you look at me.
You look back at me, and you're so happy and
you're smiling, and as you look back, a rip tide
starts taking you and you go, oh what now, And
I go, just relax. You have to just let it
pull you. But you're now swimming. You can swim, swimming
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against it. I'm like, don't swim against it, let it
take you. And you're like, but I can swim, but
I could you start swallowing water? And I go, I
just let it. Accept it.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Acceptance is the key.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
You're like, but I can swim, I say, except, and
then you you're under the ways. I'm like, oh god,
this looks bad. And then you take one big breath
and it fills your lungs and has it fills your
lungs the last things you say to me, you go, genuinely,
it is better than heroine. And then you're you're hit
by a way and you're swallowed by the sea, and
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I'm like, and I'm out of the coffin, you know
what I'm like, And your body gets washed up and
your mom comes over it exactly like you portrayed her,
and she's like, what have you done? And I go,
it's on the upside. He did learn to swim. I
did tat teaching to swim, and I did so he
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just the sea got him. And your mom goes, well,
he was always like that, And I go, what do
you mean? He was always like there was always getting
carried off by riptides. And she goes, Yep, that's him.
And I go, okay, can you help get him in
the coffin. But because of the sea, you're really bloated,
and there's more than I was expecting. I go to
your mom, can you grab an axe? Your sister comes
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a like, go, I've got an axe. Go great. We
start chopping you up, chopping you up, chopping up, chopping up.
We stuff you in the coffin. There's more than I
was expecting. There's no room in this coffin. There's only
enough room in this coffin to slide 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 at
the giant cheesecake factory in the sky when it's movie night.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
So I'm just dismembered, bloated from the seat of the
movie night.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
I love it. I reek and I want to have
a good time. You're back together, Okay, thank god. Ing
I think my favorite movie of all time if it
wasn't August Ozh County, which I've already given enough flowers too.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
It's always been School of Rock.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
For me, Sukariyah. It is the best film.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Jack Black is a personal hero of mine.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
It's the best film. It is the best film. I've
always felt that way about it. I also loved that
little gay boy in that movie. That for me was
like seeing someone like me on TV and you know,
and like just feeling like, oh, okay, being weird and
silly is fine. And Jack Black is just a perfect
human being in my eyes. I love him so much
and everything he touches is perfect. So yeah, it's just
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it's great. That's that's the way I picked for sure
that that is a perfect time.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Swer what a wonderful and that's your favorite film?
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Great, Zacharyah, You've been wonderful. Now would you tell us
what to listen to or look out for, or to
follow you or any such things?
Speaker 3 (45:24):
Well, if you'd be so kind, I'd love it if
you could follow me everywhere. Now, I don't stop posting
on Hernet. I'm Zachary reporter pretty much everywhere. I have
a podcast called Camp Counselor's Podcast, and I'm on tour
all year long. Just hit in cities every couple of months,
so to stay tuned. And I'd love to see you
at a show so we can giggle in the flesh.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Are you ever going to Europe or either seas or
is it all in American?
Speaker 2 (45:50):
Tour all in America. I've never even been here, can
you believe?
Speaker 1 (45:54):
I can't believe it's that right, just lastemus.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah, and I want to. I really want to go
to Wales.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Because Welsh oh right? Oh yeah, yeah, So that's that's
on my list.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
So if you have any venue, connect Confinue.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
I know the best festival of Wales and I could
hook you up as soon as we finish this, you
actually know, yeah, serious about that. We're going to get
You'll fucking love it.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
Oh, I'd love I'd love to, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
But just toury is the big thing right now and
just kind of hitting the ground and pushing pushing it
all up hill.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
It's been fun, Zachariah, this has been a joy. Good
luck with the rest of your tour. Have a lovely day.
Good day to you. So that was episode three hundred
and forty one. Head over to the Patreon at patreon
dot com. Forward slash Brett Goldstein for the extra fifteen
minutes of chat, secrets and video with Zacharyah. Go to
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about the film that means the most to you and
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and that is very kind and we appreciate it. Thank
you so much for Zachariah for giving me his time.
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Join me next week for another amazing episode with a
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really special guest. Oh my god, it's going to blow
your mind. Thank you very much for listening. I do
hope you're all well. I appreciate you. That's it for now,
have a lovely week, and in the meantime, please now
more than ever, be excellent to each other.
Look out. It's only films to be buried with. Hello,
and welcome to films to be buried with. My name
is Brett Goldstein. I'm the comedian and actor, a writer,
a director, a molecule, and I love films. As Roxanne
(00:23):
Gay once said, there is nothing wrong with wanting, Like
how I really want Wicked Part two to come out
sooner than it's meant to. I'll get you, Roxanne. Every
week I invite 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 evens.
But this week we have the comedian and TikToker. It's
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mister Zachariah Porter. All episodes of Shrinking Season one and
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dot com forward slash Brett Goldstein. So Zachariah Porter. You
might know him from his very funny sketches on TikTok
or his podcast Camp Counselors. He's been on tour for
a while now, the Strip Maltese Tour. You can see
him live. You will love him. I had never met
him before we recorded this on Zoom. He was so
much fun and I really think you're gonna love this one.
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So that is it for now. I very much hope
you enjoy episode three hundred and forty one of Films
to be Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to
be Buried With. It is I Brett Goldstein, and I
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am joined today by an actor, a writer, a TikToker,
a sketcho, a instagrammer, a stand up, a touring character, median,
a embodiment of family members, and of people in his office.
I wonder if they know. Please welcome to the show.
(02:10):
He's one of the great. I can't believe it's here.
It's zach a right Porter.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh my god, what an intro? This is your thing.
You're really great at an intro.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Brat, Thanks man, How are you? Where are you?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I'm good. I'm in New York.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It's snowed, so I'm snowed in over here today when
we're recording it as a super Bowl, which for me
doesn't mean much, but for a lot of people, it's
kind of a major.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, a big event. It's a big event for people
who care about such things.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, my boyfriend, he's from he's from Philly, so his
whole family they're going nuts over there.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Are they in it?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I don't think they're in it, but they they're they're
acting like they're in it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
They're acting over there.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
They're playing some money bets, they're making, they're doing parties,
and I'm over here chat with you.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I think this is where I'd rather be, to be.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Honest, this is this is the super Bowl part, this
is our super Bowl. Yeah. Now we've never met before.
I've seen your sketch finny funny stuff, and I'm very
curious you do very funny stuff. Of I'm assuming it's
your mom. Is your mom you're doing or it's a man.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It started out as my mom, and my mom will
tell you I've gone too far with it now, but
I think after she has a couple of drinks in
her it's the most accurate portrayal I've ever done. I
think it's it's an honest character and she's got to accept.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That at some point. Now, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I grew up in Massachusetts with a lot of colorful
people around me all the time, and in working in
customer service and just kind of listening and observing has
inspired that character and all my characters. And I'm very
inspired by chaotic women forty plus. That's kind of my
bread and butter right there.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, you're very good. Does your mom does she love it?
Is she offended? Does she say, well, obviously, I'm not
like that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You know, I think she loves it now because I
think she meets people that watch the videos and they go, oh,
you're the mom. She's like my' on the Street team.
She'll stop anyone at the bank and say, do you
know my son's on TikTok? And she'll she'll make them
pull out their phone and say, oh, that one's me,
that one's no.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So she absolutely loves it. Yeah, we have a good
time with it.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
It's been fine. That's great. I have a friend who
did a live sketch show, and in their sketch show,
I did this sort of ten minute routine which was
their mom drunk at a party, and her mom came
to see the show and absolutely did not spot it,
Like she was quite nervous, Like god, it's really like
word for word what she does. And I think she
was sort of didn't even mention it. It was just like, yeah,
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that was a bit boring. That one the mom looking
in the mirror. Mom, that's what it is. No, she's
she's seen it. She's into it. It's funny.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I'm on tour right now and I have this part
in the show where I talk about my mom and
how like she's like the only woman I've ever met
that really should have a little bit more anxiety because
when she drink she says the most insane, inappropriate things.
And I have a show coming up in March, and
she is going to be there, and I'm like, maybe
I should just for that show we worked that bit
because I don't know she's gonna love it. But hey,
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it killed in Atlanta because she was seven hundred miles away, so.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Gotta I gotta be careful.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But yeah, that's interesting. I cooled my dad. I describe
my dad as a massive pervert in my stand up show,
and then when he finally saw it, he was like, yeah, legend.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I think they like it.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I think what they see it in a room for
people laughing, I think they're like, well, maybe it's a compliment.
And to me, you know, what is I think just
kind of copying them and telling their stories and impersonating them.
It's a form of flattery in my opinion. So she's
on board now, thank god.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I think so. And it means you've really been paying
attention to her. Yeah, I think that's it. It's like
she is seen whatever, for good or bad, she is seen.
She could have been something. What is your tour? What
is your show? You know?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
So it's called the Strip Maltese Tour.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, and it's my love letter to growing up in
the suburbs and growing up around a group of crazy people.
I didn't move to New York until I was twenty six,
so I have like a real kind of foundation in
New Bedford, Massachusetts is like a small fishing city south
of Boston, and I loved where I was from. And
I think the show kind of encapsulates all of just
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the funny observations of what it's like to not live
in a city and to kind of treat your hometown
as if it is like the epicenter of all things culture, drama,
fun and whimsy.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And that's how I still view where I'm from.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
So it's a lot of stand up and then I
do these character act outs, which are just.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
My favorite thing to do in the world. Is a
lot of costume and wigs.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Getting in and out of the costumes in a minute
thirty seconds is truly the biggest challenge.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What's happening on stage in the minute thirty.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, you know what's I come from a like a
land of video. So I've made these like highly produced
kind of like tiktoks or Instagram reels that play unlike
kind of like a movie screen, and I'm trying to
like set the tone for the next kind of character
to come out.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
This what I'm doing right now.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
She's every girl at your high school reunion and she's
like twenty years post out of high school. And she
comes in and he's like ripped jeans and a baby
fat jacket with these bangs and these like like like
slouch boots and backstage people don't know that I'm dripping sweat,
shoving socks into a bra to come out to then
smack a pack of Marlboroughs and apply it lip gloss
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and be like, oh my gods, you guys we hear.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I can't freaking believe it.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Like, but this is a woman I worked with at
an old Navy Friday nights who would begged me to
bring her home and then would smoke in my car
after I said she couldn't.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So it's like, now now I'm just using the material
for my whole life. So it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's great, that's so good. Is this your first took?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I did a small kind of version of it last year.
So this was never like the plan for me. I
was I was in to school for marketing, absolutelyted. It
is a non profit. Wow, nonprofits are not for the week,
and I just I always wanted to entertain and then
started making videos. And after doing it for a couple
of years, I people on mindset that were like, hey,
why don't you just do it for an hour? And
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I wrote it and I was terrified to start performing it.
And uh, the reception has been good or people are
just really nice to me. But it's been really fun.
So it's I'm my first year of ever touring so
done like twenty shows, So.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You've only been performing live for a year two years
a year? What I know? That's that right? Well?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I think you either like love the attention or you
feed off that audience and you're and you're good at
like responding or you're not. But you know, I worked
in restaurants and I kind of feel like working in
a restaurant it's just doing like an extended set the
entire time.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
That's a show. Yeah, it is a show.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, And I think it prepared me for all this,
to be honest. So thank god for eight years in
restaurants in the trenches.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That makes sense. And do you have an opener or
is it just you? My boyfriend's my opener? No, so
how does that work?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
It's a family affair over here. No, we have a
podcast together. It's called Camp Counsel's Podcast. And the funniest
guy I've ever met my entire life. Because my jokes
are like low hanging. It's a lot of physical, it's
a lot of act out and he's so cerebral.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I'm like, he's the writer I wish I could be.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
So when he starts off the show, which is incredibly difficult, right,
you're entering his space and trying to set the tone
he is just he lights him on fire and he
gets them thinking and then their brain power can shut
off because now they can just dumb it down for me.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So it's like it's great and you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I was like, he came on the first couple of
shows for me last summer and I was like, you
should do this, you should open. He was nervous and
I was like, listen your backstage. You can get a
check or you can just keep coming. And he was like, well, yeah,
I might as well make some money while I'm doing it.
And it's great because now it's like my best friends
my boyfriend. But now we work together on this live
performance and it's fun. How long have you been together
as a couple four years? It feels like longer than that,
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though it's the last couple of years. It's a stretch time.
How did you get together and we're working together before that?
Did you have the podcast first? No, we've had the
podcast meme out on Instagram. What a love story beautiful?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I know.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I know he found me on his Explore page, which
seems diabolical in a little way who's on their explore.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That's a weird way to find somebody.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And he claims, he claims, I just popped up and
he liked a couple of floors before I was doing anything,
so it's kind of random.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And then I DMed him and I.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Said, you know, like my photos and not message me
with the kind of guy are you?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Is this your morals? And then it was love.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
It was love fucking the algorithm was cube D set
you up?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
They just said gay people in a hundred fifty miles
because he was in Philly, So we did a little
long distance during COVID and then we moved here together
in twenty twenty two, and then we started the podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And now it's like a content house over here.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
He's filming upstairs. He's like, you doing that podcast. I'll
be upstairs, Okay, keep it moving. What's he does he
do stand up? No, he doesn't do stand up. Now
he does a lot of observational comedy. He does like
these like reactions to crazy houses on Zillow and does
these like really well crafted jokes, extremely conscious. He does
that kind of stuff. And now he's writing, so he's
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really smart.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
This is so unusual to have a couple that do
all this together and still like each other. How do
you Is there any part of you with each other
that's competitive, that gets jealous or is it, Oh, just
you love each other and you want the best for
each other.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I want the best for him and he wants the
best for me, and I think our opportunities have come
in different directions. But there's no jealousy at all, thank god,
you know. But we don't get along all the time.
I'm a very intense person, and I think I say
what I mean and it can come across a little
too I don't know rough and he.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Thank god, he can accept that.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And I think we balance each other out in that way,
because I think he's sometimes a little.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Bit more quiet and reserved.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
But people think all the time, because we do everything
together that we're just like constantly in a love spell.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm like, no, we fight like fucking dog some days.
I can't help it. But I think, you know what,
doing this.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Life is really rewarding with somebody who gets it and
even wants the same kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So it works out in that right.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh nice fucking love story. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to
say this because I forgot to tell you something. And
I've been so moved by your love story. But you died.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You're dead, so this was just this was just the
intro called to death. Yeah you got me.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Oh my god, you're dead, buddy, at the age of
so much.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's a good gun. No, that's not the way I
want to go. Please please, how was it?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
How did you die? Up to you?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I think my biggest fear of dying has always come
from drowning. So I think it's only right that I drowned.
Where and where and how and why? And who did
someone drive? I think it was myself. I think it
was my own mistake. I'm the youngest of four, and
I'm the only one to never get swimming lessons. Shout out, Sue,
what's going on with that? She has no straight answer,
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She has no answer for that.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
How many your siblings? Oh? Boys, girls? What's what's the
what we're looking at?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
My oldest two siblings are ten years and nine years
older than me, and my brother called my sister Catlin.
And then my brother Jackson is two and my other
better Jackson, is two years older than me.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
His name is Jackson. So I am the youngest, the
most spirited.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And they're synchronized swimming at Christmas and you're just standing
on the edge.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
They're phenomenal swimmers. And I also grew up at the beach.
I grew up on the ocean, and it's very tense
for me. And it's a source subject because everybody thinks
they can teach you how to swim.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, I think I could teach you.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I promise you can't because I could.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
There's something you know, when you split limbs as a kid,
that's all like drummers get really good. I lock up
and most walk weird or something. I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You got two arms, Well that's butterfly. You could do butterfly.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I'm doggy paddling to the edge of the pool and
then I'm catching my breath. So I think drowning would
be the way. And I've heard it's like it's nice,
But how does anyone even know that?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
This is the question. There's a book called The Perfect Storm,
on which the film The Perfect Still Space, and in
it they took it's like a thing that happened, And
in it there is a description of death by drowning
and he says, your last breath, your lungs are like desperate,
so they inhale and inhale water flood your lungs with water.
And then apparently the last moment is the biggest high
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of your life. But I'm like, who you tell you that?
Because then they died?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
And also have you had a bigger high? Like have
you never had a high in your life? I feel like,
is that the biggest?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Like that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I would need to hear like someone who's very well
versed in drugs, like, yeah, I don't know under like
talk about that a little bit more. But that's why
that's also what I've heard as well. I think it's
going to be the way that gets me in the
end because I've always been the most afraid of it.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
So it would seem poetic in a way.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Do you think that you died because I was one
hundred percent convinced that I could teach you to swim,
and I insisted that I did it, and you drowned
just to prove a point.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
We were in some sort of like rip current in
the ocean and you said, no, you can, you can
push through it, and then yeah it okay, yeah, and
then you and then you threw some flowers or something
for me for my body, and that's at least let's
make it look sweet.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Oh, it'll be very sweet. I have no doubt about that.
But I feel I will feel a bit guilty. But
at the same time, I'll also be like, I'll say
at your funeral, and I'll be like, I know you
will hate me, the porters. But at the same time,
surely he could have learned. Like I just couldn't get
my head ron. I just refused to believe I couldn't
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teach him to swim.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And the sick thing is my mom would come up
to you. She my mom would come up to you
and she would say, you know what, it's not your
fault because why couldn't the boy swim? Someone should have
got through. So, yeah, that's the only way from God.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I think that's the.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Way for me. Your mum will hug me and go.
He was a stubborn asshole.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
She would, she absolutely would. She's always got some choice
words from me. But I love it to death.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Do you worry about death, Zecher? Right, Oh, I know
it's coming.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I think I've accepted that I can happen at any point,
you know, I think I was worried more worried about
death five ten years ago when I didn't know what
I was supposed to be doing. And I feel like
I'm really doing something that I'm proud of and that
I love, so that I have some sort of like
if it all were to end in a flash, I
would be more okay with it because there's some sort
of proof that I contributed what I always dreamed of doing.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
But I'm not ready to go yet.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Come on, So, yeah, I think I have a healthy
fear of death, okay, But I'm also I believe in
something else beyond this in some.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Sort of way.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Tell me what do you think it is.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I grew up really religious, which has kind of stuck
with me in a way, and I'm like, I'm not
like a religious person now, but I think I'm spiritual
in a sense. And I think. I always tell my
boyfriend he doesn't believe anything I go. I at least
if I go, something's happening for me after. I don't
know what it is, but I think there's a continuation
of life or maybe some sort of reincarnation moment that
would be pretty fierce. I think i'd come back as a.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Little dog or something I'd be into that you wouldn't
come back as a dog that a dog like a
handbag dog.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, like a nasty chihuaha like that, like was a puppy.
Was cute and then it got a little scruffy, but
they were like, we already have it, and then it
took a personality higher.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
But for a dog, that's kind of like where I'm
looking to do.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Okay, I can see that. And in the gap between
your death and you coming back as a little handbag dog, chia,
what happens in the gap or the instant just switch
out of it immediately?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh my god, I prayed it. I prayed that it's instant.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
But I think if I like look at it among
I it's almost like particles, you know. I think it's
almost like that like circuit board where you're like floating
into something.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And I think it's I've always thought it.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Was an easier way to live your life if you
feel like there's something else coming next, because then there's
some like stakes to it all and it makes you
a better person. It's like my like running conscious. I
think if there's something coming next, yeah, it like keeps
me kind of keeps me grounded stops me from being
an asshole, right, I got to keep that karma flowing.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. Well, there is a gap
between the chiua and when you drown because of and
trying to teach you to swim. And in that gap
there's a heaven, can you imagine? And it's filled with
your favorite thing. What's your favorite thing?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
My favorite thing is going out to eat with my friends.
That's like my favorite if I can do that at
every moment of day, just being at a restaurant with
my friends with good food. Oh my god, if Heaven
was just a big old restaurant.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Please it is. What's the restaurant? Cheese cake factory?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Wouldn't be upset? Be upset if it was, you know,
probably because they have everything you want?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Sure, listen, you want choice, you go cheesecape page, am
I right?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
They have it all and they do everything. Maybe not
the best, but I'm never leaving upset ever. So yeah,
let's make Heaven one big cheese And honestly kind of
feels a little ethereal in there with the decor.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah. So Evan is a giant cheese cake factory and
it's filled with all your friends and they're chat away
and they're so excited to see you. They're such big fans.
They want to know everything. They've missed you so much,
but they want to know about your life through film.
And the first thing they ask is, what's the first
film you remember seeing? Zachariah Porter.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
First film I remember seeing was a Disney movie called
Oliver and Company Billy Joe.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It was like Billy Joe Loves Great, Yes Please.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I thought it was phenomenal, and I've rewatched it like
lately with my nieces and nephews, and I thought it
was still holding up. But there was this character in
the movie. Her name was georgiap and she was a
poodle that wore legwarmers.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
And when I was a little flamer, like four years old,
already so in tune with being a gay man, I
remember seeing that poodle and saying, this is cinema, this
is the stories I need to be told.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I loved it.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I loved and the music in that movie is really
fun and it's so New York and it's billy It's
a great movie.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
What should I were rare? It's a fucking bad city.
Joe as yes please, Yeah, wonderful film. That was such
a good one for me. Great great first film. Do
you say it with your three siblings?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yeah, because I was. It was one of theirs.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I think it came out, yes, And I was born
in ninety five, so it was already like a staple
in the house. And we had a lot of vhs
is at the time, all those like classic Disney PSSes.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
But that was the one I.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Always gravitated towards because I would tell people it was Oliver,
but it was simply Georgiette every time, just waiting for her.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
No, I love I love the Dodgeta. Wait, that's kind
of a yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
With all my movies, there's kind of that wink wink
in all of them in a certain way or another.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
What about crying? Are you a cryer? What's the film? Amazing?
Cry of the most?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Oh, any movie that can make me cry is a
hit for me. The one that comes to like, I
don't know. The strongest memory of crying during.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
A movie was this movie came out not too long
It was called spoiler Alert.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Okay, I don't know if did you see that with
Jim Parsons.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I didn't see this.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Oh my, so I was invited to a screening of it,
so I was room for people. Fantastic film, and then
it was so gut wrenching, and I didn't want to
cry publicly because I was like, definitely a movie anyone
should watch on a couch in your home. But I
remember like bruising my hand from pinching it so hard
to not cry. But it's just like beautiful love story
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about this gay couple in the early two thousands, and
like this I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Jim Parsons is just so.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
He's almost like embarrassed of himself in a really sad
way and can't expect anyone to give him the love
that he doesn't think he deserves love. And it kind
of continues on and then ben Aldridge gets cancer later
in the movie and they end up getting married.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's based on a true story.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Sally Field is in it as one of the mothers,
and the ending is so gut wrenching. Anytime where someone's
dying in a hospital bed and the other person gets
into the bed with them, I can't. And that was
at the moment where he could finally say all the
things he wanted to say and let go. And then
you know, the real kicker with you think it's done,
then the credits roll and they start showing the real
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photos of the real people. It was beautiful though, and
it's one of those like slice of life kind of movies.
Those ones are forever my favorite. And I just I
left the theater bloodshot eyes. If I looked around everybody else,
Thank god, everybody else had the same reaction I did.
And Jim Parsons is really really a great actor. So
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I loved I loved that movie. Brilliantnounce it's never come up.
Well good, well done, well done. I'm just saying, well done.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
What is the film that scared you the most? Do
you like being scared?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I like when scary movies are about things that I
don't feel like are real or they're not as obtainable,
you know what I mean, Like when there's like pathogen movies.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
That stuff really scares me. But the movie that.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Scared me the most ever was Hereditary And did that
scare you?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I mean, I've talked about it too much in this podcast.
That is the film that scared the shit out of
me the most in the last thirty years. Scared the
shit out of it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I saw it opening weekend.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, and I didn't even know it was going to
be what it was, but I just am like such
a diehard Tony Kollect, like she is just an amazing actress.
And I got so stoned before this movie. And I
go in there with a twenty piece of chicken nugget
and I'm eating on my lap and really quickly in
the movie we get to that walnut scene where she's
chopping like the walnuts for the brownies. Instantly I'm like, something,
(23:16):
I'm not hungry now, I'm like kind of like uneasy,
and then it was a panic attack the rest of
the movie and I just, oh my god. It was
just it was beautiful. It was so and you know
what kind of suck stupped for me a little bit
was I had such a visceral reaction to that and
in such an amazing way that when I saw Midsommer
for the first time, I didn't get it. And I
think I was just comparing it too much to what
(23:36):
Hereditary was that I had to give that like literally
four years or so to come back and be like,
oh no, I actually.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Do appreciate this film because I was like, it's good.
No ditary.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It's fucking terrifying.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
It is. It's beautiful tale.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It's like, oh my god, what is the film that
you love? Critically? It is not acclaimed. Most people don't
like it, but you love it unconditionally. You don't care
what they say.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
It comes up every year because I won't stop talking
about it, and it's Christmas with the Cranks. I think
it is a fanomenal movie. Jamie Lee Curtis, Tim Allen.
It's like probably two thousand and two, yes, and it's
about the daughter. She goes away and they're gonna skip
Christmas and the whole town goes nuts. I believe it
(24:24):
actively has five percent on Rotten Tomatoes, which I can't
even fathom that people have the lack of taste to
give it that score. I love it so much. I
dressed up for Christmas as every single character for Instagram.
I did like a whole photo shoots them. It's just
it's such a funny movie and it feels like my
character is like Jamie Lee Curtis is just this like
(24:46):
overbearing mother and a tight Christmas sweater who's trying to
get laid and is very neurotic and is hiding from
the towns people trying to like basically pitchfork them for
trying to skip Christmas. Oh my god, Tim Allen, really
I don't. I think I would vibe with him on
a personal level. But his attachment to good Christmas films
is undeniable.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
That is, he's got a knack for him.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
He does love a Christmas movie and he's very good at.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And that's my dream is to write a Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I think you could do it. But then I was
I think you could swim. So what do I know?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
That movie?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That one for sure. I have one more? Can I
say another?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I also love the movie Why Did I Get Married?
Have you seen that movie? So Crazy? It's a Tyler
Perry movie.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I have not seen it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
It's a Tyler Perry movie.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
And it's about four couples to go to a mountain
and they just all of their deep, dark secrets kind
of just unveil in this crazy scene. And there's Tasha
Smith in it, who has this big monologue in it,
and she basically starts pulling the fingers at everybody. And
to me, I think that that was an Oscar Award
winning performance.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And then to everybody else you're like, oh yeah, that
movie is good, But that's a movie I will watch
a lot for like my character stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I kind of like those very caddy dramatic moments, and
I think that inspires me for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Maybe you could do it, Maybe you could do the show,
and you could swim. I believe.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
There's a tide changing with the swimming and with this,
with this interview thing, it's like this podcast, we're shifting
now there's some belief.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
What it's on the other hand, a film that you
used to love but you've watched it recently and you thought, oh,
I don't love this anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
This was such a hard question because I serially like
I think, I think I have a lot of the
same kind of stuff, like same taste level. But there
was a movie that I watched that my boyfriend was
obsessed with that's like a cult classic that I was like, Oh,
this didn't hold up at all in my opinion, and.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
That was I Know what you did last summer.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Mm hmmm. I used to love it. I haven't seen
it recently. What's what's its crime other than running over
a fisherman?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, right there in that plot line, it's I think
very overact and it's so unbelievable, and I like the
campy kind of horror, like I love scream I think
screams amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
But there's this one scene where I forgot who it is.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Someone's like being murdered in a theater above everybody else
on the balcony and she's screaming and no one's hearing it, and.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
That just took me out of it.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I'm like, can someone one head isn't going to turn
She's it's.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Not that loud in there, but he was talking up.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
He's like, oh, it's one of the best, one of
the best, and I've always heard of it. And I
was really excited to be blown away and prepared for
it to be kind of silly.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
But I don't think it was that good.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
And then they got a reboot for a TV show,
so I think I'm alone in this one.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
But I'll stand on business.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I don't care. What is the film that means the
most to you? Not necessarily the film is good, but
the experience you had seeing the film will always make
it important to you. Zachar rya Port.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It was Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban. I
grew up really religious. It is the best one, and
my parents would never allow me to see stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
What kind of religion does that matter?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
It was Christian, but it was. It doesn't. It's just Christianity.
But I think my church.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
When Harry Potter was kind of like coming up, it
felt like it was like Witchcraft, which I feel like, okay,
they're whatever, but it's not really like okay.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So my friends in school would read it, but I
wasn't allowed to ever read it.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
But I had a babysitter who showed me all these
movies that she knew that I would love, but I
couldn't tell my parents. So she showed me like Labyrinth,
which I like loved, and then and then we watched
the first two Harry Potters. And then that's when the
third one came out in movies, and we went to
the theater one night. She said, ob take the kids
(28:40):
that the movies didn't tell them what movie, and she
took us and she was like a high school student,
and we went in. And anyone who's like seeing those
movies knows that there's such like a shift and everything
when that one happened. So like just the way it's
it's more adult, the filming of it It's just so
much bigger and I was not expecting it. So when
I left that movie theater, I I remember just like
(29:00):
feeling like I was different for the first time ever,
Like you don't see a movie you feel different. That
was the first one. I was like, oh, I'll never
be the same after this movie. And it's still my
favorite of all Where's my letter come on?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That's the best one as well.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah, it is just a shift in the whole franchise
at that point.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
What is the film you must relate to.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I'm sure people have talked about it on here because
it's just such a beautiful film, But Ladybird has always
had such a special place in my heart. It's just
it's just it changed. It changed everything.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Like Sarsha Nan is such a phenomenal actress, but there
was just so many like parts of that film that
I relate to. From a family dynamic, I think those
are like my favorite kind of movies or about family dynamics,
And I've always had It's funny because like, my mom
is my biggest muse, but I've had the most challenging
relationship with her because we are so different, and I've
(29:53):
always wanted her to be a little bit different than
what she is. And as I get older, I think
the easiest way to kind of cope with that is
meeting people are there and not expecting people to follow
the guidelines that you put in front of them. But
especially at that time in my life, I felt so
attached to like that narrative, like wanting to get out
and be something and having this critical lens on you
that almost felt damaging in a way. But looking back
(30:15):
as I got older, I'm like, this is just the
product of who she is, as Ladybird finds out her
mother is and she's just doing her best. So it's
kind of got wrenching in a way, but it's also
got like so many like great funny, uplifting moments. It
kind of encapsulates how I felt my life was at
that point for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
So are you close with your three siblings? Do you
have favorites?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
My sister for sure is my like number one obviously,
but like yeah, and she knows it. And my brothers
are really close.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
It's like I come from a family that I have
very different beliefs than a lot of them. You know, politically,
we couldn't be more divided, which I think a lot
of people can relate to like you don't. You don't
always have the same matchup of like lifestyles as people.
You got to love them where they're at. But my
sister has always championed me and never made me feel
like weird. Because I'm not joking, Like there was never
(31:06):
a moment anyone's life that I no one thought I
wasn't gay. Like I was always very flamboyant and now
I've used it to kind of like my advantage. But
she's always the one who just never made me feel
like I had to like butcher it up, you know
what I mean? I could just be myself with around her. Yeah,
my bestie. Uh, what does she do? What is that private?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I don't think she's a corporate events manager. So nice,
real luxurious, that's nice. What is the sexiest film you've
ever seen? Zachar rya Porza, let's not mess about what's
the sexiest one? Well, Cruel Intentions is so hot, right,
(31:45):
it is such like a sexually charged movie, and it's
so unapologetic about it and it's inappropriate, but it's so right,
Like it's like I don't know how they made like
some sort of like like line about incest, like a
plot in it that we all kind of just like great,
like I don't brushover like it is so weird, but
oh my god, even like Sma Blair in that movie
(32:08):
is so like just everybody is on their worst behavior,
and it's just like the blueprint for like what a
good team, sexually charged movie should be. Oh my god,
I rewatched that this year and I was like, this
movie is better than I even remember it.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, slightly unfortunate that you just tell me how much
you loved your sister before you picked a film about incest.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Lucky for me, I'm gay and I don't love my
brothers like that, so I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah, I likely when the brother and sister really fucking
going at you. I don't know. It just seems fun.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
The way that like we can't deny that there was
a chemistry, but to it like it's sick, but and you.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Know it's funny.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Half that cast was on I know what you did
last summer and I hated them in there, So it's.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Like just like thought bull of a bit.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Reese Witherspoon too, Oh my god, she is such a
babe in that movie.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
And then Joshua Jackson was.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Gay in that movie so hot in that movie too,
Just what an all star cast. And then Christine Barnski
is the mom in it and she says the most
ridiculously think like some of the lines that movie you
can never say now, but they're just, oh my god,
laugh out loud, funny, like it's just really cook movie.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
There's a sub category to this question, traveling Bone is worrying.
Why don't a film you found a rousing but you
weren't sure you should? Zecher what you got?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I thought, And I forgive me. I don't have to
say his name. I thought.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Ralph Phineas in the menu was like, do you mean right?
Very sexy? The d is that Ralph?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Ralph? How do you say his first name?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Right about Ralph? Right?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah, Okay, he's really he's really confusing me. Her Ray
Fines in the menu very very alluring to me, and
I kind of felt like he wasn't That wasn't the
intention of it, but I did think he had some
some sort of control over me with those burgers. It's like, okay,
I was getting a little wound up over there, and
(34:14):
it was he's like literally destroying the entire place and
murdering people. And I was like, all right, let him
do it.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
So you like let him cook. You like being in
a restaurant and you like a chef that's fucking telling
you what's what? I might always kill you.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yeah, because I think you know, it's funny that you
say that.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
I think when you work in restaurants like those are
the only people that can really tell you what to do,
Like when you're a server of bartender, it's kind of
an even playing field. There's like some like hierarchy, but yes, Chef,
there's actually a lot of meeting behind that there is,
And I think that was he is.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yes, Chef is the Bear the sexiest show you've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I don't think it's the sexiest show I've ever seen,
but it's it's I do that too. I'm not upset
either way. Just get me in the kitchen, honestly, in
the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I also thought of a I thought of a sexy
female counterpart that I always thought was like really pretty,
But I think it's this in Gremlins.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I always thought the female gremmory was kind of a deep.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yeah, Gremlin's two when she was in that cheet up
or the bikini, I thought, if I swung that way,
maybe maybe that would that would.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Do something for me.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, that's a very good looking gremlin. What is objectively
the greatest film you've ever seen, not maybe your favorite,
but the greatest, the pinnacle of cinema?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
I don't know, because it's like you, I want to
like Godfather b that's I don't That's not what I
really feel. I think the Prestige is just an incredible movie,
like jaw dropping?
Speaker 2 (35:51):
But is is that in that category?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
And to me, it's in that I'm saying, in my
category that is objectively just.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I think so insane. It's brilliant, and it's brilliantly made,
and pretty in the act to this brilliant.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
It's brilliantly made.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
The casting is just insane, and the twist it takes
at the end it almost feels like it's too much,
but just enough that I didn't I don't hate it,
like the finest line of being like I can't stand this,
but oh my god, it's a movie that I like
can sit back and be like, yes, this is what
I look for.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I really like in that film when she's like, sometimes
I look at you and I see the love in
your eyes, and sometimes I sometimes it's not there. And
at some point she says something and he goes not today.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
The setups for that, for everything to unfold later in
the movie is just it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
So good, great answer. What is the film that you
could or have watched the most? Iver? And Iver again?
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Everyone that knows me personally knows that it's August Osh County,
which it sounds like a job.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
No, I get it. It's all your characters around word table.
I get it.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
It is the master class of family dynamics and batshit
crazy women. It is just heavy hitters. I was thinking
about Tay and I also think it's crazy. It's three
Julia's Julia Roberts, Julian Nicholson, and then Juliette Lewis, who
are all the sisters, Margo Martindale, and then Meryl Street.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
These are just the women. We don't even have, not
even the men in the conversation.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
But I remember seeing it for the first time and
thinking like, this is the most beautiful film I've ever
seen made in Meryl Street going at her a game.
I love it so much that I then had to
go see the stage production when she's based off of
So I've seen the Plant as much as much as.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
I love it now, but I watch it all the time.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
I know it's on Netflix, and I actually own it
on Amazon like Prime. I like bought the movie because
I'm so afraid that I'm going to lose it at
some point. It's just it's like my go to, especially
when like me to like feel charged up about doing characters.
Oh my god, when she's got like her little blue
pills and she gets tackled in the movie, so crazy.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
I'm running it.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
But now it's like, oh my god, I love Juliet Lewis,
who when she says like, yeah, this is one line
she says all the time. She's like in the movie,
she's like going on her honeymoon after the wedding that's
coming up.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
And she's like, we're going to belieze. Wouldn't that sound nice?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
And they bring it back at this traumatic part in
the movie and she repeats it again. I'm like, oh,
it gets me. That movie is everything to me. It's
my favorite movie ever.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
That's great. Did you like the play as much having
started with the film.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Well, I wish I could I wish I could say
I think it was great. So what I love about
that film too is that it's the planes and it's
like this like lifestyle that I can't relate to because
I've never been out there and that kind of emptiness
and the loneliness of it being out there, And I
think the play does its best efforts to put you
in that scene. But I like the movie so much better,
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which I feel like some people probably disagree with.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
But it's a movie outfield. People talk about it.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, it wasn't massively taken to as a film, I
feel unfairly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
To me, it was good. I'm the one out here.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah. And it was John Wells directed it. He's one
of my favorite people, John Wals who did for Starters.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
He did.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Yeah, I'm not from I'm not familiar. Maybe I should
like look into John Wells and what else he's making because.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Here right, absolutely, what is the worst film I've ever seen? Zacharya,
This makes.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Me feel bad me too, be nice.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
I can only think, like, in the past year, there
was a movie I didn't care for.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
It was Driveaway Dolls.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Oh, yes, okay.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
I think the premise was really great and I think
it just had. It didn't deliver on a lot of
what it could. Like a lesbian crossroad country crime drama,
was a comedy, sounded so funny, and I think Beanie
Feinstein was amazing, and the rest of it was kind
of like it just never never got there for me.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
So I'm sorry. I feel bad.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I say, that's ok you were very nice, It's okay.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
What is you in comedy? You're very f You're on
tak for God's sake. What's the film that made you
laugh the most? Sucker? You know?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
I think the obvious one. I always like go to,
like the funniest movie.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
I always say Bridesmaids because it's just like a masterpiece
in Kristen Wig was like my that was like my
favorite cast of SNL was growing up with that. But
a movie I think once again, it all goes back
to family movies.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
I really love My Big Fact Greek Wedding.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
I think it's gotten so many incredible lines in it,
and just that casting her having her real family in
it too. That movie makes me laugh out loud from
starting to finish. For what fifteen years later, I'm still
just really in love with that movie.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
So for sure that have you seen and do you like?
The sequels? Are the three sequels?
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Two Secrets, there's two and three. I haven't seen three
because two was a little difficult for me.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
But it wasn't bad.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
It just what was the what was the premise of too?
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I don't even remember. I think they go back to Greece.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
For someone else's wedding, the kid's wedding, something like that.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
The kids are in it. I don't even remember because
it came out so long ago. I remember Joey footone
comes back and he's now a silver fox in it.
But yeah, I know, the kids are grown up and
She's sequels are difficult, you know, but I understand why
they're made. But they always leave me wanting more as
everyone else. But the first one I think is.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Just a master's Okay. I like that for you, Zacharya Porter,
you have been a delight. However, when I maybe arrogantly,
I don't think it was arrogance. Maybe it was that's
all a little bit hubrist, they might say. I was like,
I get that you think you can't swim, and I
get you think you can't be talked to swim, But
I can teach you to swim. I'm a good swim
(41:39):
And also, I don't think it's that hard. It's not
like learning to surf. Surfing is hard, takes work. Swimming's
fairly straightforward. So I take you out to the sea,
we get a sea. You're scared, and I'm just I'm like, listen, man,
it's honestly, it's fine. You can doggy batter, right, you
can dogy better. And you're showing me a doggy batter?
Is this good? And I go, look, it's just one
(42:00):
at a time. You take one arm, you put it
and then you put your head in. And you're scared
to put your head and I go that. Just hold
your birth, take your breath and put your head and
just for five seconds, we'll get used to that. And
you keep your head. No, I don't like it. And
I'm like, it's fine, man, you're going honestly and holding it.
I've got you, you know, in the shadow. Anyway, you swim,
You swim and you put two eyes and you have
(42:21):
your face out. You put your face up, you put
your face up, you're swimming. I'm like that, Zachariyah, you're
doing it. You're doing it, and you look at me.
You look back at me, and you're so happy and
you're smiling, and as you look back, a rip tide
starts taking you and you go, oh what now, And
I go, just relax. You have to just let it
pull you. But you're now swimming. You can swim, swimming
(42:42):
against it. I'm like, don't swim against it, let it
take you. And you're like, but I can swim, but
I could you start swallowing water? And I go, I
just let it. Accept it.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Acceptance is the key.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
You're like, but I can swim, I say, except, and
then you you're under the ways. I'm like, oh god,
this looks bad. And then you take one big breath
and it fills your lungs and has it fills your
lungs the last things you say to me, you go, genuinely,
it is better than heroine. And then you're you're hit
by a way and you're swallowed by the sea, and
(43:14):
I'm like, and I'm out of the coffin, you know
what I'm like, And your body gets washed up and
your mom comes over it exactly like you portrayed her,
and she's like, what have you done? And I go,
it's on the upside. He did learn to swim. I
did tat teaching to swim, and I did so he
(43:34):
just the sea got him. And your mom goes, well,
he was always like that, And I go, what do
you mean? He was always like there was always getting
carried off by riptides. And she goes, Yep, that's him.
And I go, okay, can you help get him in
the coffin. But because of the sea, you're really bloated,
and there's more than I was expecting. I go to
your mom, can you grab an axe? Your sister comes
(43:54):
a like, go, I've got an axe. Go great. We
start chopping you up, chopping you up, chopping up, chopping up.
We stuff you in the coffin. There's more than I
was expecting. There's no room in this coffin. There's only
enough room in this coffin to slide 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 at
the giant cheesecake factory in the sky when it's movie night.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
So I'm just dismembered, bloated from the seat of the
movie night.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
I love it. I reek and I want to have
a good time. You're back together, Okay, thank god. Ing
I think my favorite movie of all time if it
wasn't August Ozh County, which I've already given enough flowers too.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
It's always been School of Rock.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
For me, Sukariyah. It is the best film.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Jack Black is a personal hero of mine.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
It's the best film. It is the best film. I've
always felt that way about it. I also loved that
little gay boy in that movie. That for me was
like seeing someone like me on TV and you know,
and like just feeling like, oh, okay, being weird and
silly is fine. And Jack Black is just a perfect
human being in my eyes. I love him so much
and everything he touches is perfect. So yeah, it's just
(45:09):
it's great. That's that's the way I picked for sure
that that is a perfect time.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Swer what a wonderful and that's your favorite film?
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Great, Zacharyah, You've been wonderful. Now would you tell us
what to listen to or look out for, or to
follow you or any such things?
Speaker 3 (45:24):
Well, if you'd be so kind, I'd love it if
you could follow me everywhere. Now, I don't stop posting
on Hernet. I'm Zachary reporter pretty much everywhere. I have
a podcast called Camp Counselor's Podcast, and I'm on tour
all year long. Just hit in cities every couple of months,
so to stay tuned. And I'd love to see you
at a show so we can giggle in the flesh.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Are you ever going to Europe or either seas or
is it all in American?
Speaker 2 (45:50):
Tour all in America. I've never even been here, can
you believe?
Speaker 1 (45:54):
I can't believe it's that right, just lastemus.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah, and I want to. I really want to go
to Wales.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Because Welsh oh right? Oh yeah, yeah, So that's that's
on my list.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
So if you have any venue, connect Confinue.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
I know the best festival of Wales and I could
hook you up as soon as we finish this, you
actually know, yeah, serious about that. We're going to get
You'll fucking love it.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
Oh, I'd love I'd love to, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
But just toury is the big thing right now and
just kind of hitting the ground and pushing pushing it
all up hill.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
It's been fun, Zachariah, this has been a joy. Good
luck with the rest of your tour. Have a lovely day.
Good day to you. So that was episode three hundred
and forty one. Head over to the Patreon at patreon
dot com. Forward slash Brett Goldstein for the extra fifteen
minutes of chat, secrets and video with Zacharyah. Go to
Apple Podcast. Give us a five star rating. But right
(46:43):
about the film that means the most to you and
why it's a lovely thing to reading. It helps numbers
and that is very kind and we appreciate it. Thank
you so much for Zachariah for giving me his time.
Thanks to Scrubby's pipping the distraction, pieces of Network, Thanks
the Buddy Peace for producing it, Taste of iHeartMedia and
Wilferrell's Big Money Players Network posting it past to Adamchison
for the graphics and needs to learn him for the dome.
Join me next week for another amazing episode with a
(47:04):
really special guest. Oh my god, it's going to blow
your mind. Thank you very much for listening. I do
hope you're all well. I appreciate you. That's it for now,
have a lovely week, and in the meantime, please now
more than ever, be excellent to each other.
Host
Brett Goldstein
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