Booksmart: Accurate & Jumpsuit

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Toss Popcorn is a production of iHeartRadio. Hi, Hi everybody, Hello,
We're back. We are back. I'm Sienna Jacole, I'm Leanna Holsten,

(00:21):
and welcome back to Tossed Popcorn, the podcast where two
idiots watched every film on the AFI's one hundred Greatest
American Movies of All Time, the very slightly less racist
tenth Anniversary edition, and are now watching movies directed by
women women.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
This podcast is a safe graduation ceremony for people who
don't know anything about movies. Today, we're watching Book Smart.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
We were gonna watch that ken Burn's thing, that des
Pold can.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Wait, a film that we both question mark had seen before.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Warning there will be spoilers about this coming of age
recent film. True true true, Oh my god, Hi god, Hi, we.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Actually have a phone call. No, since we both left.
We truly took a break. We we do a break
from each other.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
We in the words of my friend Michael Slash, he's
quoting Gwyneth in this, we consciously uncoupled, foretously uncoupled for
one month. Oh there's so much to hear about.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
But before Oh yeah, we can't do that yet. In
classic tradition, I love.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
What I love about the structure of this podcast is
it's never in the order we want it to be in. Yeah,
and we always wanted to be in a slate a
different order every day.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
And we can change it. We did it. We No, No,
well we can't. No, we can't, but we can't we cannot. Oh. Yes,
well I was gonna say, I'd love to hear your prediction.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Wow we okay, all right, right, Sienna, here's my prediction
for the film Books My.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I have to open it in the iTunes.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
No, hello, Sianna, Leanna remember me do I'm about to
watch Books Smart. I've seen this movie before. I saw
it in theaters when it came out, and I remember
loving it a lot and really laughing when she does
a dream ballet with her crush because we've all been there.

(02:26):
I'm gonna laugh again. Yes, it's women's rights.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yes, you love that. Okay, Well, let's let's do my prediction.
Let's do my okay before I speak at all. Okay,
I don't want to speak. Okay, it's gonna be a
tough episode. Yeah, I'm back to the podcast, but I
don't want to speak this time. I don't want to
speak Yeah, Hi, Leanna, this is sunny. I'm about to

(02:53):
watch Book Smart. I haven't seen it in a while,
but I think it's about girls like you and me
who thought we were better than people for being really academic.
So it'll be fun to do that sort of reflect
on who we are after school season suckers who are
still in school. Okay, I'm excited to talk to you
now that we're both back from our high dcs. I

(03:15):
love you. Goodbye.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, yes, big, big, yes is all around?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh boy, Okay, can we talk to each other now? Yes,
we can talk to each other. Okay, girl, Oh my god,
I really want to Oh my god, where have you been?
Where have you been? Well? I know, I think I've
been in the bruh. Yes, I want to hear about

(03:44):
that more. Okay, But you also texted me saying that
you wanted to tell me why you were dizzy the
other week, So I think it's okay for us to
take a little longer hey girl today because I got
to here. Yes, up, we've got to catch up. I
want to hear about some highlights of Edinburgh and why
were you dizzy the other day? Okay? And thank you
for this agenda. This is helpful.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
I'll start, I'll do bodily maladies first and then we'll
go into Edinburgh because it'll be it'll be a perfect segue. Okay,
number one, I'm fresh back from the dentist from having
my gums absolutely brutalized. Let's there's literally still like blood
in there.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Oh no, I can't see the blood. But your teeth
look great, thank you.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
I requested they be cleaned, because the fucking British dentists
will just not do that unless you ask. They were like, oh,
do you want a cleaning? And I was like, well,
when was my last one? And they were like, oh,
it looks like a year ago. And I was like,
well then yes, damn the rumors are true.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
They really don't say true.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh so I was a big, brave adult and took
myself to the dentist and now my gums are very
in pain.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
I was dizzy.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I was very dizzy for a few days last week
because I took the train back from Edinburgh on a
Tuesday and decided to treat myself to a taxi from
the train station to my apartment cause I had a
really big suitcase and then several like loose bags and
it was too much to put myself onto a bus
with all that going on, so I held a taxi.

(05:14):
I went to the cab stand, got into a taxi,
told them my destination, put my suitcase aside, and while
stepping into the taxi. Do you know how London cabs
are set up so that it's like a row of
seats facing the driver, and then there's a seat behind
the driver as well, so everybody's kind of facing each other. Yeah,

(05:34):
they're very square, they're a little bit higher off the ground.
I stepped into the cab and hit my head so
hard on the door jam that I heard my neck no,
like fold my neck like made a sound, and then
I involuntarily also made a sound that was so humiliating

(06:00):
because picture this, You're a tired American woman. Yeah, after
a long month and a long day of travel at
the end of that long month, and you are stepping
into a cab and then you just I like, I
think I lost an inch. I compressed myself no, and
the sound that I made I can't quite remember it
because it was so involuntary. It got literally squeezed out

(06:22):
of me by the door jam.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
But it was something like ew right from the throat.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
And the reason that it happened, and this is the
thing that I hope makes you laugh because it's really
been making me laugh, is that I hit my head
on the top of the cab because I tried to
get in with all of my bags at once.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
You had so much momentum. You've made your mask greater,
you increased it and threw yourself in. My velocity was unprecedented.
I can't blame your neck. Simply happened to your neck
because I've hit my head a lot. Yeah, which I

(07:11):
think we've talked about before, but I like I haven't
smushed it. I do like my pants are fitting differently,
Like something changed? Did did the did the did the

(07:32):
cab driver notice? Did you guys have to talk about it?
What it was? A thing was done? It was a
really lonely moment. That's that is so I.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Have not seen slash heard it happen. And then I
had to just like keep putting my own stuff into
the car.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Was he still driving or was he still in the
driver's now? Was he still driving? Big part of the
problem with the cab was moving. He tried to jump
into it. Was he still in the driver's because yeah,
no attempt was made to help load the item.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
All.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's wild. Second of all, I wonder if he felt
the car like shake and heard like a stone.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
He must have felt something shift. Yeah, there's no way.
There's just no way. It was like one thing that
happened in Edinburgh was I got a crape from this
crape stand that was recommended to me, and it took
me so long to find it because it's this like
little hidden shed where that they where they make crapes.

(08:34):
And I got my crape and I was walking home
with that, adding toward a park to walk through a
park while eating my crape, a seagull swooped down and
slapped the crape out of my hands onto the sidewalk
and then flew away, which really was insult to injury
because normally seagulls will swoop down in order to steal

(08:57):
your food, but this one was just hey, I'm sorry,
swooped down kicked my crepe out of my hands onto
the sidewalk, and then I had to turn around and
just make sure other people had seen that happen because
it was so crazy and.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Did anyone see it?

Speaker 2 (09:15):
It was another lonely moment where a lot of people
just filtered around, but a young couple both went wow,
that was crazy, Okay, thank god.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Are you okay? And I was like, I guess and sorry,
when did that happen? That was in Edinburgh?

Speaker 2 (09:34):
It was in maybe the last It was the last
week of the festival.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Seagull slapped your crape out of.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Your ears, slaped slapped my crape out of my hands
and then flew off.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
That would be my That was my biggest report. No, yeah, yeah,
case away.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah. The main thing that happened to me in Edinburgh
was a seagull slapped and I was maybe four bites in. No,
there was so much savory crape left.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
No, that's terrible to eat. No, you didn't even get
to the little loaded corner.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
No, I was nowhere near the loaded corner. And then
I had to scoop it off the ground and throw
it away. You can't leave the majority of a crape
smashed on the sidewalk, splattered on the pavement.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
That is, yeah, because it's like someone needs to clean
that up. It's like when my car talk is bringing
like my phantom pain back into my neck. No, oh,
she's shrinking, she's shrinking. When my car got destroyed because
it was smashed from both ends. And then after after
I got it towed away, which, by the way, once

(10:54):
it had been on the street for like two days,
people were yelling at me that it was like ugly
to see, oh my god, oh my god, off the street.
I'm like, I don't want it to be like this.
If it were on the street and weren't smashed, you
wouldn't have a problem with it. But someone else smashed
it anyway. Then there were a bunch of shards left
and I was like, I have to sweep this up

(11:17):
because it's my car. Even though I didn't destroy it,
a seagulls destroyed.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
So your car got destroyed by a seagull, absolutely drunk seagull.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah god, that is crazy. Okay, Well any other Edinburgh
takeaways now that you're not a full run there? Was
it what you thought it would be?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Like? I think it was what I expected it to be,
which was so hard, but in a good way. There
was a stamina alone stamina. The hardest thing to do,
the hardest thing about it is flying strangers. Trying to
convince strangers on the sidewalk to come to your show

(11:55):
and they don't care We learned very quickly that our
target demograph is fully asleep for a one in the
afternoon show because gay people are not awake by then.
Oh at the end, a fringe total. So we had
some polite older crowds. We had some some heterosexuals in
their seventies who have.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Attended. They certainly attended the show. Were they Scottish or
were they traveling from all over?

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Some were traveling, some were Scottish. We had a couple
in from Glasgow who sat very still and didn't laugh
for one full hour and then we're like, yep, that's
because we're from Glasgow. And I said, that's not an excuse.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Very still, be, very still, very glad.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
I went, excited to do it, do it a all,
Oh my god, excited to do it all again next year,
happy to not do that again for a while.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Totally Hey you experienced a real London comedy scene experience though. Yeah, yeah,
hey girl, Hey, this morning I was messaging someone on
Etsy saying, yes, I believe that doll wig is the
right size, thank you. No, I believe that doll Wig

(13:10):
is the size I need, but I can't be sure.
It's going on a can of spray paint. Is that helpful?
That actually is helpful?

Speaker 2 (13:19):
If I had a doll wig that would really help
me understand, Like, oh yeah, I think that would fit.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Or I I have a job this month that I'm
excited about, but oh yeah, I have so much work
to do. I was looking at my schedule and I
was like, I I don't, I can't. I can't do this. No,
I can't, I can't. I it's not that I can

(13:45):
do this. I just truly do have to be working
every single day, Like I don't think there's a time
to take a break, which is okay because it's just
two weeks, but yeah, grevel, what you wish for? Yeah, anyway,
it's good, it's good. I can't possibly I would. I'd
rather complain about this than complain about being stuck in

(14:06):
LA with with with nothing and no hope.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah right. I've done a lot of travel this summer,
and being away from Los Angeles makes me just have
be like why am I here?

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Oh shoot, okay, okay, all right, okay. It's also really
go to feel that way.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
After a summer in Los Angeles because the desert it's
it's been too hot. Hey, how's your neck over? There.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh I'm a stretching her. Yeah, I have a fun
Oh my god what. I went to acupuncture, yes.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Because I'm my jaw has been getting really bad and
I'm like, uh oh at some point it's just gonna
pop right off. And my neck has been really really tight,
and I went, listen, I'm in Los Angeles. Let's do it.
Let's do this. I really liked it. It helped my
neck a lot. And the acupuncturist had me open my

(15:00):
mouth and told me, she went, let me see. Oh yeah, yeah,
you're damp. Your mouth is damp. I went, well, yeah,
did a debate kid just walk into the room. Boom,

(15:23):
We'll be right back. But besides that, yeah, I went
into music festivals. The porta potties were horrific. My toilet
stamina gets gets gets more and more limited as I
as I get older. Yeah, I need a nice bathroom situation.

(15:47):
I saw a lot of Stanford people when I went
to the Outside Lands music festivals.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
What was that like? Boy? Well maybe this did you
see them? One? Sort of because I did not see
the lasts okay, because it was sort of a moment
of well here I am. They happened to you managing
a giant wizard and you are in SEF because you
like are are working for Google or whatever. Yeah, but

(16:16):
I did. It was good. It was it was good. Yeah,
I don't, you know, I don't. I don't regret my life.
Oh my god. I'm just still thinking about your damp mouth, like, like,
what's it supposed to be?

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Like? Would she be happy if it was dry? Does
it is that it wasn't particularly an aura? Did it
have an aura of dampness? Like you know how they
used to do her moral theory where they were like
your humors are, oh yeah, your phlegmatic or see yeah,
maybe your mouth is like too damp. Yeah, like energetically totally.

(16:54):
I think that was I don't know what you do
for that.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
I don't know. And I'm like, that's not true. That's
not true. I'm all on board to get into like
the spiritual whatever, but this wasn't really spiritual. It is
more like your mouth is too damn Well that's not right,
that's not true anyway. Well, I guess should we start
doing the podcast stamp? I guess so, I guess so, yes.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Speaking of people that you went to school with, Yeah,
and who make you kind of reevaluate your own life
and path.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, Ciena, huh.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Could you please give us a synopsis of the film BookSmart?

Speaker 1 (17:32):
I can't BookSmart. Two nerdy best friends think they're better
than everyone because they don't party or have fun that much.
They're always doing school. But then their minds are blown
when they find out that many popular and fun kids
in their midst are also going to amazing elite colleges,

(17:54):
and for a minute, they lose their sense of self
and meaning without their superiority complex. To we on, they
spend the night before graduation trying to go to a
specific party, but they keep going to other parties and
places on accident. The end kind of yeah, it's like

(18:14):
they're about to go to college. It's that phase they're
learning how to be themselves, even though they've been close
friends for a long time. Yes, anyway, but that's the
big humor of the film. A lot of it comes
from that they are like, well, at least I'm going
to go to a good school, and then everyone else
is like, yeah, I'm going to Yale.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
I also do yeah. Yeah, in many ways, it's a
horror film.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yep. Yes, well, Leanna, I would love to talk about
this talk about.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Notes, h classic us taking notes. Yes, this is the
segment of the podcast. Hello everyone, and also welcome anybody
who might be new. Why I don't know who you
might be, because I forgot to plug this podcast while
I was in That's fine, Sorry about that.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
My bad.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Every time I got a new follower, it was somebody
who you definitely had spoken to about the show over
the past month, and I.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Was like, oh, I am not. I am not pulling
my weight.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
The segment of the podcast where we look at the
notes that the other person took on their phone while
watching the film, Yes, Siana, your first note is that, yeah,
you've written. For some reason, this movie does stress me
out a bit, maybe because they're coming for people exactly
like me, and I'm scared to look in the mirror.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
When I first saw this movie, I think, I actually
I liked it, but some people love it, love it,
love it, and I was like, I liked it, Like
I just think that that aspect of it I will
forever and these are like my only tragic kind of
we'll see later. But I'm like I unfortunately because I
was that insufferable person in high school. In a lot

(19:51):
of ways, I will always be like, well, you didn't
quite get it right, But it's not interesting about getting
it right because it's it's a comedy piece that's making
fun of people in a whatever world. But I'm like, well,
that's so interesting. You're onto something. But if you were
really trying to make fun of like people like me,

(20:12):
you'd do it this way or that way or oh wow.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
I it stresses me out as well, but for different reasons,
one of which is that like, and only a little
bit I was. I pretty much got over that this
time around, but that nightmare feeling where you're trying to
get somewhere but obstacles keep popping up, which but for like,
by the nature of the genre, this just has to
be that exactly. The only thing that stresses me out

(20:36):
is just seeing Molly interact with her peers and knowing
that I said almost those exact same sentences in high
school and just having to really have a reckoning with
my own personality. Yeah, and I was sighing heavily often
at my own past self totally.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
I know. I think there's there's just things about about
high school where I'm like, I don't I don't need
to think about that, though. I think it is really
funny because I remember the age, like junior year was
when a lot of uh more like unassuming kids who
weren't necessarily the like I wanted, the I'm wanted, the

(21:17):
super academic kids. It's like there were some there were
some of them who were like, oh, I've actually just
been like kind of I found actually that I'm really
interested in math. So I worked really hard this summer
and now I'm in the honors math. And I was like,
I'm sorry, I'm confused about that because you have a girlfriend.
So I have been an honors math since sixth grade
because if I'm not in it, I don't know who

(21:38):
I am, and I will buy.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
I had a friend who over the summer studied really
hard and leveled up into my year of French, and
I was like, I'm not sorry, what are you doing there?
Taking French since the third grade and actually have a
shockingly poor level of French? Given that, Yeah, you cannot
be up here, right, What do you mean I just

(22:02):
worked hard?

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah? I was like, what do you mean?

Speaker 2 (22:06):
There's not working harder to me in a way in
the sense that I've always been a nerd and I
don't do anything else exactly.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
And my working hard is that I'm always working hard
by making things harder and being stressed because I can't
spend time looking into my soul or figuring out what
I exactly want. I have to just work hard in
the way that they tell me to work hard, and
I do exactly that, and that's I'm rewarded by at
least feeling good that I'm in this class. And so wait,

(22:35):
you're here because you want it to be. And like
that guy who leveled up into my math class or whatever,
he's like a math professor now, and I'm like, well, oh,
why did I want to know math? I don't know.
I didn't use it in college at all. Like it's
not for any need, you know what I mean. So
anyway I do. I think this movie does really stress
me out in a way, but that's okay. It's funny too,

(22:57):
and it's very much a film for the girls, by
the girls in a big way. I'm really grateful so much.
It's like a big blockbuster by the girls, for the girls.
So good on them. Leanna. Here are some of your notes.
You said, Uh, it's so important to greet your friends
with a little dance. That is so true. That is
so true. I love a little dance, a little dance. Uh,

(23:21):
Leanna you said, you said, omg, we should watch Rose Roseline.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Watchsalne next week. Please, I really want to watch this.
I've seen it before. I love it. It's a movie
with Caitlyn Deaver. Caitlyn Deaver who plays Amy in this
Love Lover, love her first of all, love her.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Love her.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Second of all, I love her too. The premise, I
love her. The premise of it is, you know, in
Romeo and Juliet, how at the very beginning, Romeo is
in love with somebody else. Yeah, her name is rosal.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, I was an honors classes.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
I have to know that.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
You know that.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
If I don't know that, I don't know myself.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yes. So the premise of this is that Caitlyn Deaver
plays Razaline and it's kind of like a voice of
reason to Juliet. And it's very funny and it was
a woman.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Okay, let's watch it. Okay, yeah, okay, perfect. Leonna, you
said the accuracy of the theater kid versus debate, kid rivalry.
Oh my god, we had mock trial and it's true
because also was it mock trial? Versus theater a little bit.
It's like the same type of nerd might do either,

(24:39):
Like I was gonna do mock trial maybe, and it
was so this was actually the first time. It was
a big moment for me to decide not to do
the elite thing, because like that was sort of like,
you know, like a lot of the really smart kids
did mock trial, but I found it so unbelievably boring
and like it was just such a dense slog even

(25:02):
though I would have just been auditioning to be like
a witness, which is basically the acting part. I was like,
I hate this, hate this, I hate this with my life,
and I quit it. And I remember crying on the
floor of the bathroom being like, but I'm supposed to
do all the smart things. I'm supposed to do, all
the things that make me like an amazing student, Like
I'm supposed to do that. But I didn't know what
I wanted. I just did what I was. What I
thought was like, yeah, admirable, Oh my god, oh my god.

(25:27):
And my brother said to me, he said, this is
an age. It's really tough when you're not figuring out
just who you are, you're figuring out what you're not oh,
And I said, oh my god, so smart. Okay, Matt,
I know. Wow. Anyway, you guys had debate, Matt, did
you ever do?

Speaker 2 (25:43):
We had debate, and the debate kids and the theater
kids had a fierce rivalry.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Fierce.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
It was fierce because are okay. My high school was
also extremely strange because we had an IB program and
then we I remember this the traditional program, so it
was essentially two high schools, both alike in dignity. But
the opening line for memory, as delivered by is there

(26:13):
everyone all right, I've seen it. I read it.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
It's not her fault. She had so hard. She self
bunked real hard.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
The theater kids and the debate kids had such a
big rivalry because a lot of us also were doing
the IB program. And if you took your debate classes
freshman and sophomore year, those classes were weighted to a
five point oh g p A and the theater classes
were weighted to a four point oh g p A
and the IB classes were waited to a five point

(27:00):
two GPA. So our GPAs were like fucked generally and
completely skewed. But it meant that the debate kids had
higher GPAs even if you got the same grades because
their classes were weighed differently. So when the class rankings
came out and I was ninth and the valedictorian was first,

(27:21):
guess what it came down to.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Wow, But I'm over it obviously, that's crazy. I don't
think that it was a great injustice because we all
had to suffer through that speech that the valedictorian gave,
which was.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Bland.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
And do I think I would have done a better job.
Of course had because I had done theater, I had
performance training. I wasn't just an a hole spouting facts,
which is what he did in his speech. He basically
did it like it was a Lincoln Douglas debate or
whatever it is, whatever you do out there.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Those idiots.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Anyway, the debaters were just a bunch of a holes
and can get fucked.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
But anyway they sound like a holes.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
I mean, we will also wear the worst people in
the world, like the theater, because we'd show up to
an ihop like at Closing with forty children and be like,
we all want different unique orders. We were a different
kind of hell spawn. And I know that, I do
know totally, But when it's like at least you're allowed

(28:27):
to be outwardly horny in theater. That's true when it's
between two versions of the same demon. Yeah, you can
hate one demon more than another, and that is okay.
And the correct deemon to hate is a debate kid,
because they're the totally worst. Oh, yes, Yanna, you've asked
did you go to parties in high school?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
I forget. I went to two parties.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
I went to two parties also, Oh my god, notably
two parties. The first one it was very near where
I lived, and I remember sitting in the basement and
a classmate of mine, who I won't name was Inebria
tootled and I remember him sitting on the floor in
front of me and saying, don't judge me, Leanna, which

(29:09):
was really interesting because I didn't think I wasn't judging him.
I didn't know myself enough to know what my face
looks like to others, and the fact that they like
I just gave off a vibe of being judgmental, so
they'd have projected that onto me anyway, And I was like, dang, okay,
I am, I can't hang not chill. And then I

(29:33):
went to one other party where I had my first
ever beer, and I alternated SIPs of beer with SIPs
of water, So it's not and I've never had that
peace so much in my life.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
That is so funny. Parties, Leona, I think we really
would have been friends in high school, and I don't
think that's true for everybody I know. And I think
you and I would have absolutely dominated this high school friends.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Oh, I think we had had each other. Yeah, we
could have had this book smart night out type thing totally.
I think we would have emboldened one another in a
beneficial way.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
I needed a bit of that at the time, because yeah,
I uh, I was this. I went to two parties.
I also remember people being like, oh, like that in
the in the movie where they're like, oh, what are
you doing here? But they're not like they're not like
oh what is she doing here like they do movies.
They're just like, hey, cool to see you. It was

(30:32):
a mix of that and people being like I could
just tell that they had like a bit of shame,
like WHOA, Sienna's here and is gonna see us drink?
Like I don't really want to be drunk in front
of Sienna, just because I was like a little bit Yeah,
judgmental and like my thing was sort of like I
didn't mean for this to be my thing, but people

(30:53):
would thought I was like innocent, and it's because I
obviously was like, I'm not gonna do that. Yeah, I
don't know. King isn't really for me. Never drank at
a party. I went to that one with my cool
friend from drama, and then I went to one more.
Oh yeah, because I was dating somebody cool by senior year,

(31:16):
which is very and this is where we urge. This
is where you stop being relatable to me. I'm I'm
I'm surprised too, and it really it It sent me
into a spiral for like six years having dated a
cool person in high school. I genuinely think that it
made me so confused because our entire relationship with me

(31:37):
being like I'm good, I don't want to do that,
and he's like, Okay, well I'm going to hide the
fact that I'm drinking from you, and I was like,
why are you? Yeah, But we went to it and
it was so awkward the whole time and I hated it,
and everybody bought clothes to change in too, because it
was after prom and I didn't know we're supposed to
being close to change in too. So I was the
only person in my prom dress because it was a
freaking And then my boyfriend at the time was drinking
with his good friend in the stairwell and I was like,

(32:00):
hete you what I had to leave early. Wow. Yeah,
And I left with my friends crying. I forgot about this. Whoa.
I left with two of my friends crying, and I
was like, let me go home. I literally hate my boyfriend.
Leiminated for another year. Well that's just a heterosexuality. And
then we got married. Yeah, now he's my husband. Still

(32:21):
hate him.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, we had three care pigs.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Can you really hang at a party? This might not
be the right podcast for you. We'll be right back, Leona.
You said she's transcendent.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Oh my god, Billy Lord, uh huh. Carrie Fisher's daughter,
who is the one who's always at the next party.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
I loved her. I didn't know it was Carrie Fisher's daughter.
I loved her. I loved her so much. My gosh,
she's so good in this. Yeah. I thought everybody was
really good in this tbh. I agree.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
You noted to me they chose all the perfect white
male comedians to be in this everyone who I.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Love Will We've talked about we love a dork like
Will Forte, Will Forte, Jason sadeikis it pretty good? Divorce? Hello?
What's his name? Goodness something? Oh? Yes, Neil or Neil
or I forget sure, Nope, that's completely wrong, that's not
his name at all. There's but the guy who used
to do Strong that Skylar, Mike O'Brien, Micha O'Brien, and

(33:38):
then Syler from Superman. Yeah, and Stones And it's like
I love all of those guys, every single one that
I saw. I said yes. And that's how you know
that this is a girl's world and a girl's movie,
because those are the ones who we got. I'm happy
to see you. Yes, yes, you said wow. Tbtated jombajuice?

(34:00):
Do they don't have jambas in England? Is Jampa still
really bumping in the US like it was? Yeah six
years ago?

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (34:08):
I go?

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Really? Okay?

Speaker 2 (34:12):
I just feel like it really had a huge moment
where everybody was like, should we go to Jampa juice?
And I don't feel that that's happening so much these days.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Maybe your a rise of authoritarianism, so people aren't really
like yamba my jamba as much.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
And probably the rise of actual like health places where
it's like and I'm gonna get smooth, I'm and I
get like that's true smooth, where it's like it's like
a dessert smoothie. But I love them. I went the
other day because it's been so hot in La and
I had and they have they put to heen in smoothies.
Now why I put the heen in the Caribbean passion?
It was delicious. Also, growing up, my mom would get

(34:48):
jamba juice as my school treat because you can get
little ones, so when we had to bring treats in
for birthdays. That's why she's cute. And uh, but you're
right because those were the times when it was bumping,
and now yeah, it's not so much. Leana, you said,
I hate this man kill him with a gun? Who
is that which one? Oh?

Speaker 2 (35:10):
The her vice president who flirts with her at the
party and then kisses the lesbian.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Escape had seen this movie before, and I was shocked
at that. I forgot about that.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Oh, it's like the main thing I remembered. I wring
Valet into that happening never trust a man.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
He was. They were somebody flirt with you.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
It means nothing. Don't do anything about it because you
are wrong.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
They were flirting so much. Yeah, I know, it was awful.
That was really hard. That scene was very heartbreaking to watch.
It was horrible. My mouth was a gape. Yeah, it
was a god damp mouth. Yeah, my mouth was damp
as night. Oh yeah, Lean, you said he's fully flirting

(35:57):
with me. This might actually happen. No, Mama, mama, no mama,
no no, no, no, no no, Leoni you said, I
would also hate if this girl got into Yale. It's
actually crazy how much that matters to my young soul. Yeah, no,

(36:23):
you can't have that. I have nothing.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
I remember senior year of high school having an issue
with somebody else applying for Yale. I literally remember saying
in a group chat, I just kind of feel like
Yale is my thing.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Sorry the fuck. We really would have been friends in
high school. We really would have been I wish we
could have done that. We would have been these girls,
these girls. One of us would be a lesbian right now. Well, well,
well Figer's crossed. Give it time. It's not nice to

(36:57):
think about high school. I feel mad at my boyfriend
right now for having a good time in high school. Leanna,
you said Amy was better than all of us with
the free Palestine poster in twenty nineteen. Yeah, did you
see that. I didn't see her.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
They're in her bedroom at the end, packing because she
has to go, and they have all these like various
protest signs and various like feminist signs, and then she
has a free Palestine poster on her wall, and I
was like, damn.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Girl, damn girl, you win, you freaking win.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Oh Sea, your last note is literally you leaving for London.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
I literally almost started crying when they were leaving. When
they were I was like, this is a moment. The
thing that resonates most with me in this movie is
that they don't tell you when your girlies have to
leave sometimes, and you have to say out it's so
messed up. It actually is gonna happen in life so much,

(38:04):
and you guys have to leave, you have to go like, okay, bye,
it's all see you up. No, it's the only part
of that. Would you please come here? Would you please
visit here? I genuinely I know I keep saying it,
but I genuinely genuinely. Now that I'm just giving up
on like having a job in LA I'm like, well,

(38:24):
I guess I'm traveling a lot. I guess it's the work.
It's gonna fall apart. Yeah, I'm seeing a cap here.
I feel like if taken like six gap years, Oh,
I'm taking.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
A gap only gap years. That's a really good taking
a gap decade. I'm taking sort of a gap. I
didn't take a gap year after college.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
I'm taking it. I'm thinking I'm taking it every year now.
But yeah, I have like I have like two one
hundred and fifty thousand flight points. Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, so you could get here on like business class.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
But I think that the actions, I think that they
go away really fast, Like one flight is like what
ninety thousand or something. But anyways to get it, Yeah,
that's worth it. Leoni. You said these poor girls graduating
high school in twenty nineteen. Oh my god, you're right.
You're right.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
That girl is moving to Botswana in the middle of
twenty nineteen.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
That's terrible. First gonna work out, that's not gonna work out. Well, yeah, no,
that was all your notes.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
And oh yay, okay, let's graduate into Badges and Trages
the segment of the podcast where we give badges for
BookSmart girlinas and trages for two besties who can't hang.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
I could not hang. That whole relationship didn't work out.
I couldn't hang. He's like, can you just hang? And
I was like no, no, no, no, I cannot. I
have so many badges. Oh my god, Wow, I have
very few because I didn't do a good job of
writing him down. Okay, well, I guess i'll start.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
My first badge is for Jessica Williams.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Yes, I love her. I love her so much. Badge
for girly best friendships. I mean it almost for me
feels a little bit like this whole scene where they're
like I love you, You're gorgeous or gorgeous. I almost feel
I don't even feel anything watching that, because I'm like, yes,
this is what life is like. But when I think

(40:30):
about it, I'm like, oh, it's really nice that they
put this on in a movie, because this is what
this is what being a girl is like. You're like,
you're gorgeous, You're perfect, You're gonna kill it. I can't
believe you look like this. I don't understand. I have
to throw myself out. Oh oh, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
A badge for Jared aka that actor Skyler whatever unfortunately
does steal the show in this film.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
He is an excellent actor and I love him. I
really love root for him. I'm written to him until
the cows come home. I love that this movie can
offer like nuanced men. It's not just like any gross
guys or anything, because instead they're like he like listens
to women on what was it like, inspirational women in

(41:20):
his car because he wants to remember how to be
really respectful when he goes to parties. Oh god, I
love him.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
That's another thing I love about. That's another badge for
this movie is that it's a high school film, but
it doesn't rely on tropes.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Even when she's like he's a jock, it's like he
kind of is, but he's also like visibly bisexual.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
You know. It's like and people are people are nicer
to each other, and yeah, the people who are like
hot are people who they would actually like. It's not
like just like movie hot yeaeah. It just felt real.
Everybody did, like a real person. I can tell they
took care in that, and I really appreciated it. A
badge for Oh yeah, that's basically what my badge was.

(42:01):
I wrote that a lot of characters are surprisingly nice nice,
which is actually what high school's kind of like. It's
like people are at least civil. Yeah, a lot of
the time. I don't care. They're not just like being
into each other all the time. Yeah, but that doesn't
mean that you just might still not get along. Like
the people who saw me at the parties that I
was felt uncomfortable at, they weren't mean, they were like nice.

(42:23):
I was just like, I'm not supposed to be here
because of my vibe and we all know that, and
that's okay.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Yes, A badge for the soundtrack, Oh my god, bangers Only.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
It is bangers Only. M Oh my gosh, it totally
is badge for the awkwardness of them being in the
teacher's car is top notch comedy. They did a really
good job of their awkwardness. It felt exactly what it
would be like, Oh my god, it's like, yeah, well
I'm writing a book. Oh yeah, Oh that's great. Loved

(42:56):
that badge for It's a joke, am, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (42:59):
You can't move for jokes in this film so many gags.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Badge for I uh, I remember the part of what's
his name being in the car and being like, don't don't, don't,
don't trust a stranger, right, I love that part, but
I forgot that at the end it turns out he
is a strangler, and I laughed out loud at that.
A strangler is such a funny bad guy. Also, yeah,

(43:28):
that was a very very funny bit.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
A badge for when they both are doing the who
allowed you to be this beautiful?

Speaker 1 (43:41):
This was okay? I'm sorry. Yeah, I loved that back
and forth. Those are all my badges.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
A badge for Caitlyn Deaver's delivery of the line shotgun
just kidding. I don't have one when she's getting arrested.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Oh, she's being so funny in that. Oh god.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
A badge for the tassel sunglasses that Billy Lord's character
is wearing it at graduation. Also, a badge for the
backwards cap under the graduation cap that Jared's character wears.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
That's so funny.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
A literal hat on a hat huh. A badge just
like overall. A badge for award worthy stuff from Beanie
in the scene where Amy is talking to the girl
that she kissed the night before and you see Beanie
in the window.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Oh my gosh, that was so funny.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
Oh my god, Oh my god. And my final badge
is a badge for the way that they've captured non
men friendship with the final interaction and the final line,
the final exchange between the girlies where she's like, I
can be the last one in my flight? Want to
get pancakes, and she goes, fuck yeah, I do. Fuck yeah,

(44:53):
I have goosebumps. I have goose bumps.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
That's just it. It's exact my response when somebody says,
want to get pancakes? Yeah, yeah, I do. Fuck yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Oh. Like the positivity and the support and the empowering
nature of being friends.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
I'm literally gonna cry. There's something so sad and beautiful
too that like your friends, your friends, like your family
and your partner and whatever, like they kind of have
to follow you, but your friends get to scatter all
over the world.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
No, yeah, because I was the one who left, so I
haven't had the thing where it's like somebody near you
still are where they left from.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
It's just like, oh my god, it's like a melancholy
partner crying oh my god. I also think I'm on
my period, oh girl, because it was hitting so strong.
I was like, it really is. They captured that this
is also a part of life because when you're going
to college also, you're like, we don't know what's gonna happen,
and we actually, because we love each other, we have

(46:09):
to say goodbye and let us go on our journeys.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Yeah, I feel like it really you got particularly victimized
by it because two of your very close friends left
not far apart from one another.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
Yeah. Right. I know. I was thinking about that because
I just visited my friend in Michigan and I was like,
oh my god. And you know what was crazy too.
She when I was visiting her, I was like, oh,
I was a small LA was like a small part
of your life like that. It's not even I'm literally
so glad that we were. To me, it was a

(46:42):
big thing that you were here. But for them, they're like,
oh yeah, I forgot. Like her friends were like, oh,
I guess I haven't heard that much about you in
LA And I was like, what what do you mean,
what are you talking about? We all want so we
had a whole bunch of world. We had a whole world.
There was a whole world there and they all left.
Oh no, who knows about it.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Sometimes I talk to people hear about you, and I'm like, yeah,
she she had a hard time when when I left.
She got really into puppeting, puppetry myself. It's true, she
turned to a different she started hanging out with a

(47:26):
different group of people.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
I started, I literally started hang out with a different crowd.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
But it's actually a wonderful bunch of very creatively interesting people.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
And God, the opportunities that you've had from it are
so cool. I'm just glad I get to I. Actually,
it turns out I just like I like to do.
I just like making I just like to be able
to like not think about it, like think about anything,
and work with wood and stuff like that. So it's
kind of a reaction to the opposite of this exact
vibe of academics. I'm like, maybe what if I can

(48:00):
get to have a job where I don't have to
think about anything? Yes, so true. Well, speaking of puppets,
move on to our trages. Thank you. I do have
a trauge for I actually really hate scenes where characters
turn into like claymation or or like animation or like puppets.
All of a sudden, I, for some reason, have my

(48:21):
whole life found it really cringe. And I said this
yesterday to some people I was watching it with, and
two of them were in my puppet group, and they're like, yeah,
I don't like that either. None of us like that.
I don't know why. I'm just kind of like it's
always like, but I didn't hate it. Hated in this
because it's really funny when they walk out and they're like,
it was gonna.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Say it does really pay off with them exiting the
house like that.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
A lot of that I missed the characters. I don't
want to see these dolls. I don't want to see that.
I want to see my friends.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
A trage for Botswana as a punchline, I do feel
like it's kind of used as a punchline. Yeah, it's like, oh,
she's spending this are in Botswana helping women make tampons. Yeah,
And I'm like, okay, yeah, I mean, if nothing else,
there's some real white savior stuff going on there.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Totally they could I'm surprised they didn't addressed because of
the vibe of this movie.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Right, I think that's what felt odd about it. Yeah,
but I was like, yeah, yeah, so that felt sad.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
Point yeah, uh, trage for okay, some of us actually
were nerds, okay, and I feel like no one in
this movie actually knew what it was like to be
like exactly the type of nerd okay, and you can
kind of.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
Tell so I don't know, lol, oh my god. Which
is I do feel that they some of them understood
the theater kid essence. Absolutely, that's not necessarily the same.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
If anything, me even feeling the need to say that,
what the real trage is is that it brought up
so many feelings for me, because like, why am I
defending something like there's actually nothing wrong with this movie.
It is it's a comedic, fictional film, so there's really
some stuff still stirring inside.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Still stir in trag for there's a long Harry Potter
reference where he's like, you're like half Slytherin, half Raven Club,
and it's so very funny and it's very like our generation.
But it's so it's a meta trage because JK. Rowling
has really fucked it.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
I'm sorry. I was just talking the other day to
my friend. I was like, how she literally could have
had it all. I know, literally, all you have to
do is not have not work so hard to have
hate in your heart because she was literally she created
like one of the greatest stories of the modern day.

(50:41):
And she's a woman, and she did she didn't know
I know what. I know. She doubled, tripled, quadrupled down
on just being like a horrible, hateful person. Yeah, I know.
She really majorly flopped. Major tradge, big flap, huge flop.
Yeah tried for JK. Yeah, oh that was your Oh

(51:07):
I have a trage.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Oh, I have a trage for this brand of man
who will flirt prolongedly with you and then go make
out with the lesbian in the pool.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
And I did think of you. I did think of
you because because I've seen I remember seeing exactly that
flirting happened one time.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Up close and in real time to the Hague for
crimes against humanity, crimes against my girlies, the crimes against
the girlies. My final trage is with this is the
one that I didn't write down. Is honestly, do you
know what a trage for the two of us on
this episode being so mean to our young selves and
being like we were pieces of garbage, which I do

(51:48):
feel and kind of stand by. But also it's like
what it's made me realize is that I do feel
very happy with who I am now. Yeah, and that's
such a cool, triumphant Yeah, and it's like, yeah, absolutely
I had flaws and also I was a child. Yeah,
it's true, and I was like figuring stuff out and

(52:11):
you have to not be perfect in order to figure
things out.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
That's true totally. Yeah, there's still some sort of like
purity of self knowledge that I'm trying to preserve from
the time or like, but it makes no sense at all.
There's still some sort of like the reason I'd feel
so disappointed in myself is that it's like I wish
I'd had it all figured out earlier, but it's like,

(52:35):
why would I expect that from all possible Yep, that's
just the brand of not having it figured out. Was
that I just like really held myself to a crazy
high standard academically and then didn't know who I was
when academics wasn't my whole world anymore.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Yeah, I feel like I also do that this thing
where it's like I was such a I was so
like I was such a nerd and so like such
a dick, like I was just so such an a
hole in high school to like even further distance myself
from that person where it's like it's okay to just
accept that that's like you had flaws at that time

(53:10):
and now I am perfect and there's nothing wrong with me.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
I feel like that's what it's doing, you know. Yeah,
it's only it's only furthering that.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
That's a great point. That's a great, beautiful point. Thank you, well, Leona.
I think you have more segments. Yeah, I think so.
Let's talk about how to pretend you've seen this film. Yes,
this is for you. Are at a party. You're at
a house party, you're sitting, You're very comfortable, having a
great time. You say, I could go all I could
go all night and do this all night to at

(53:42):
least four thirty. Yeah. And Nick comes up to you
and he says, hey, are you Raven Claw? Oh, baby,
I can see it. And I still love those books
by the way, I say, separate the art from the artist. Baby.
You go, oh my god, sorry, I'm just trying to
party here with my friends on this chair. And you
go and he goes, hey, you seem like a smart lady,

(54:03):
I watched a movie about smart women recently. I wonder
if you've seen it. It's called Book Smart. Love that film.
I'm gonna tell you all about it at this movie
actually till five am.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
And in order to Expelliarmus Nick away from this conversation,
We're gonna give you a few sentences you can say
to pretend you've seen the film Book Smart. Yes, Nick,
I've seen Book Smart. And in order to get you
out of this conversation, I'm gonna laugh loudly with my girlies,

(54:34):
a sound you will hate at. Some of my favorite
lines or little quotes from the film, such as, first
of all, for example, when Jared arrives and says, I've
got soup dumps. I love soup dumpling, dumplings, soup dumps.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Do you get to eat soup dumplings as a vegetarian?
Do they have that? Sometimes?

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Sometimes I get to yeah, yeah, if they're I have
offered them in you know, the vegetarian style.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Worried about you?

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Okay, yeah, I mean I don't get I'm actually is
not a good example. Today's not. I don't ask again later.
I don't want to answer that today, I don't feel
like talking.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
That scene where Billy Lord dives into the water. Mm hmm.
She was like, I want to do that stuff myself.
And then they were like, you shouldn't do that, and
she was like, oh, I think i'd be really like,
I think I should do it. They're like, usually we'd
have a stunt woman do it. And also if you
dive into that water, the water is so dirty that
you could get a yeast infection. And she said, okay,

(55:43):
I'm not going to do it. And they did bring
in a stunt woman who was a professional cave diver,
so I guess she has all the whatever you need
to not get used infections, right, Yeah, yeah, she's yeast proof.
She's built up enough yeast. That terrible news that that happens.
But all right, that's crazy fact.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
We've poisoned our waters. Yes, Nick, I've seen book Smart.
And then I look at my friend who's just walked
in and her outfit, and I turned to my other
friend and I.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Say, Charmaine, get to the safe room. We're being robbed
by supermodels. Did you ever watch the show Shrill? Of course?
Oh my god, okay, sorry, sorry, what's your name again?
From Lolly Lolly out of when she goes. At one point,

(56:40):
Adie Bryant comes in and Lolly goes, sorry, I didn't
know this was this was a house for cute models, Like,
I don't know this is a party for cute model.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
When she and e Er fight master make a sex
tape and then watch it back and are horrified by it.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
I got to rewatch that show. That show is so good.
That show was so good. Yes, yes, nick, I have
seen the film Book Smart. Here are some fun facts
about Olivia Wilde directing this. Poor Olivia Wilde got she
did such a good job directing this, and then she
directed that other movie with Florence Pugh and absolutely her

(57:21):
PR team was not on it with her on that one.
But she did a great job on this. Some things
that she did was Beanie Feldstein was originally going to
play like another character who got cut, and when Olivia
Wilde was brought on too direct she was like, Okay,
I need Beanie as Molly. I need her to be
this role, which she was perfect for it. This is
her directorial debut. Fun fact wow. Olivia Wilde encouraged the

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two lead actresses to spend time living together to build
up a raport between them, and so they ended up
being roommates for ten weeks. Crazy, but you could totally
tell because they did have great rapport. And then final
factor is that when she encouraged the cast to rewrite
any dialoge that felt inauthentic for their characters. So whoa,

(58:03):
that's really cool because it felt super authentic. That's when
reason this movie is so good. And uh, you can
tell that the cast was all really invested. So yeah,
yeh don.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Oh, yes, yes, Nick, I've seen Book Smart and gosh,
I just want to apologize for how late I am
to this party.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
Traffic was nerds.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
I said that I saw this with my friend when
it came out, and we said that for like a
year after.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
I would watch anything with that Skylar guy. I think
so unfortunately. I say, he's so good in this, he's
so good in Superman. Those are the Keys's so really
good And can I be honest, I think that whoever
his agent is, they choose good stuff for him because
I've liked every like thing he's been in. I first
saw him in Psych. He played young James.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
That's crazy, little baby Sean, Baby Sean. My dentist today
was French Oh.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
My goodness, I know, I don't know about them and teeth.
I don't know there this is what I feel. I
felt some sort of prejudice and I'm not really sure
what it was. Okay, well, here's the final fun fact
is that in real life Beattie Feldstein is queer and
Caitlyn Deaver is straight. Wow. I never would have guessed
what we was. Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Also the fact that Molly wanted to move to d
C after college. I was like, of course you do.
She was really realistic debate kid wants to She.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
Really reminded me of one of my friends who did
mock Trial and was like going to be a DC
political loyaltype.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Anybody who yearns for DC. I feel a deep fear
of that's so scary. Mm hmmmm, Okay, I'm not Let's
go onto our next segment. We've got to Should you
watch this or what do you think? Yes, this is
where we tell you if we think you should watch
this movie or if you should do something else with
your t I'm excuse me, I'm sorry who allowed this

(01:00:06):
film to be so beautiful? Yes, you actually must watch BookSmart,
and I feel comfortable mandating that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Yep. Uh Yeah, I think you should definitely watch BookSmart.
This movie is so fun and if there's anything that
if you just want to watch a short episode of
something instead, you can watch Portlandia because there's a video,
there's a there's an episode with Olivia Wilde in it,
and now that I've seen so much of her work,
whenever I see it, I'm like, you go girl. And

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that also has a bunch of SNL cast members. But
I think that this movie is great and that you
should watch it. It's really like they did a great
job of making it authentic and really really fun.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Yeah, so y, so funny, so funny and so good.

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
What are you gonna what are you gonna rate this movie?

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
I would rate BookSmart five tasseled sunglasses, No. Five soup dumps.
Soup dumps, soup dumps, five soup dumps out of five.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
I love it. I'm sorry, I love it. Love it, Sienna.
I'm going to give this movie. I am gonna give
it four point five empty boat Parties out of five.
They did a great job. I just got really stressed
watching it part of the time. But I think, like
you said, it's like you gotta be gentle with your

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past self. But yeah, but even while watching it, I
was like, I was like, I also give a speech
in my high school. And then when somebody else said
they gave it, I was like, well I want to Stanford. Yeah,
so sorry sorry. Yep, we all get got by something
in this life. It's true.

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Well, thanks everybody for getting got by this episode. Yes,
where we Tossed Popcorn reviewed BookSmart. You can find us
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