Beth Newell on Bridget Jones's Diary

Beth Newell is the co-founder of one of the smartest and funniest sites on the web, Reductress. Beth is also a friend, so Chuck managed to get her into the studio in NY to talk about her movie crush, Bridget Jones's Diary. The talk somehow went from there to the constant nakedness of their kids, as conversations sometimes do. 

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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Hey, everybody, and welcome to Movie Crush. Charles W. Chuck
Bryant Here once again in New York City at my
home away from home, c d M Studios, guest producer
Charles in the house, and this week I was lucky
enough to sit down and talk to Beth Newell. And
Beth is uh the co founder of the great, great

(00:46):
satirical comedy website Reductress. If you don't know Reductress, get
on over there and check it out. It's very funny.
I guess the sort of the way I usually describe
it is it's like the onion. Uh, it's like the
feminist in So if you like good satire and good comedy,
then the Reductress website is the way to go. Uh.
They're really great and super nice and um, it's just

(01:08):
super great what they've accomplished. Her and Sarah just starting
this website and it's really grown into a genuine thing.
They've they're now writing books. They have a great new
podcast out called The Reductress a Minute, so, uh, you
can find that wherever you get your podcast. I've listened
to that and they sent me an early version and
it's very funny. Uh, so definitely check that out. And

(01:31):
Beth Is. I met Beth through my friend her husband, Peter.
Peter McNerney is was on our TV show, The Old
Stuff You Should Know TV show Back in the Old Days.
Peter is a very talented and funny comedian h improv
actor here in New York. And Uh, they we cast
Peter out of New York. He came to Atlanta. We

(01:52):
became good pals there. Peter is so funny. H He
also runs the story Pirates podcast for Gimlet. Peter is
just around great guy and he and Beth are wonderful.
They have two wonderful children. And I also hung out
with Beth at Max fun Con last year and got
to know her a little better on her own and
and she's just terrific, very warm and friendly and funny,

(02:13):
even though she says she's not warm in this very
podcast and she's she's lying because she is warm. Uh
is a very sweet person. So we were able to
talk about Bridget Jones Diary, movie I had never seen
before until last night, and I loved it. I thought
it was really great and a very fun and funny,
charming movie, which my wife also loves. So I can't

(02:34):
wait to get home and talk to Emily about it
as well. So here we go with Beth Newell on
Bridget jones Diary, Where did you grow up? I grew
up in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, which which is like twenty minutes
north of Boston. Okay, so is that technically a suburb. Yeah,

(02:55):
that's a suburb. So you would go into Boston not
a lot um, you know, occasionally, but it wasn't. I
don't know. I was like the middle child, and I
feel like I did. It's like didn't occur to me
until too late that I should have been like trying
to leave. We're also like, we're in this weird even
though we were pretty close to Bouston, We're in this
weird secluded town that like sort of is very towny

(03:18):
and like tries to build barriers around itself. So they
had no public transportation, so you unless you like rode
your bike like a whole town over something, there was
no way you're going to get into Boston. So you
couldn't like jump on a train or anything. No, but
if you had everything. I know some of those towns
because I lived in New Jersey, and they would have
in these townships all the stuff you needed so you

(03:40):
didn't have to go into New York like they had
the theater and yeah, see we had none of that.
It was like, um, so Lynnfield is next to lynn
which is like a city, and Lynnfield was like originally
the fields like the farms of land or something. So
it's like, I don't know, they just never built anything up.
But even like the convenience store was like pretty tie me. Uh,

(04:01):
there was nothing. So it was like it was like
by design though. I think, like the zoning laws, they
were like we're going to keep this town small and secluded,
and like I think at one point and when I
was growing up, they my parents were talking about how
like they weren't even following like the housing zoning laws,
like there's some you know laws that there should be
like a certain amount of low income housing or something,

(04:22):
and they were just like totally shirking it to like
keep it quiet. What did your parents do? My my
mom is still a nurse. UM. My dad originally he
had a couple of different jobs, but he he always
worked in radio, doing um a couple of different things.
He worked at uh an am station in Massachusetts, where

(04:46):
he would kind of like run there. He would like
program like a series of long like music stuff for
the weekends, Like this would be like big band Frank
Sinatra type stuff. And he was just like set up
a few hours of music for I feel like there
was like no one in the studio, Like it was
just like running. And then he also would do the
play by play for like college basketball games that like

(05:08):
BC and BU and that was at a different radio station.
But so was he. Uh, I mean, how did you
get into comedy stuff? How did you become a funny person? Um?
I mean probably his influence mainly because he would when
I was really young, he would tape SNL episodes on
the weekend and then we would watch them later. I

(05:30):
was pretty into that and he would, you know, we
would watch movies and stuff. Siblings, Um, I so I
have I had an older brother who passed away, uh
years ago, and a younger sister. So was your family
movie time then? Um? Yeah, sort of. Um, definitely when
we were younger, I think my parents would rent movies,

(05:53):
but we didn't have a lot of movies in the house,
Like that wasn't something that our family spent money on.
And we're like that. Actually, when I got older, like
when I did get older to old enough to like
be dropped off at the mall. One time I bought
some VHS s and came home and it was like
a huge argument where my dad was like, we don't
spend money on movies really, yeah, because it's like I don't.

(06:18):
We're like it's a very thrifty New England family, like
where you know people sometimes would like rinse out zip
block bags to reause like that. Yeah and so, And
it's really funny because my dad was always so into
music and he would have like ten different radios around
the house. Like he just like was there are certain

(06:39):
things he loves to spend money on and then everything
else is like he doesn't understand why anyone would ever
spend money on it. So that was like a big
thing growing up where he would just like roll his
eyes at whatever like the latest thing was that we wanted,
and he was like no, So yeah, he he took
the VHS I bought at the mall and returned it
to the store. Yeah, do you remember what movie it was?

(07:01):
It was School Ties And I don't know if like
that was part of the reason because it was like
semi adults movie. Was that the um Anti Semitic, not
anti about anti Brendan Fraser. It's Brendan Fraser who looks
not at all Jewish, places a Jewish student, and then
a bunch of other like super famous. Yeah, it's like,

(07:24):
um not Damon ben affleck um again part of the appeal.
I was like a tween and there's like, dude showering scenes.
I think I was like, this is great. Yeah, nothing
hotter than a shower. Yeah. So I don't know if
my dad fully knew that that was in the movie,
but he was like, we do not spend money on

(07:44):
a movie. And how old were you when you bought that. Um,
I'm guessing like twelve or thirteen? That's adorable? Yeah, and
had you heard there was a shower scene? So that's no.
I don't think so. I think I realized that after
I watched it, but it was Um. What happened was
my I bought it, my dad made me return it,
and my friend felt so bad for me that she

(08:06):
bought it for me as a birthday present later. So
then no, then I like waved it in my dad's face.
I was like, you can't return um, but yeah, sorry,
what was the question? No, I just well, I mean,
I think it's the reason I bought it. The reason
I bought it was because I was a huge Brendan
Fraser fan. Oh, just he's like I've been reading about

(08:27):
him lately. You read that interview with him I did Vogue. Yeah,
I was really impressed with that interview and it made
sense of a lot of things. He seems like a
good guy, like I think, and I was never like
a Brendan Frasier guy at all, but in reading this,
like I think people root for him. Yeah, he's definitely
really sympathetic in any way. Yeah, I mean I was.

(08:49):
I had a huge crush on him for years and
it was like I everyone else's school was into like
Leonardo DiCaprio or Josh Hartnett or something like that, and
I was like, I like this goofy, weird guy. And
then yeah, and I thought I was such a weirdo.
And now that i've worked their doctors, we had we've

(09:10):
had two other editors and A Dresden and Rachel Winnitsky,
who also had huge crushes on him as a kid,
and I'm like, oh, this is just like a nerd
girl thing like yeah, because he wasn't well he was hunky.
For sure, he was definitely hunky, but I think he
was just so goofy. Yeah, he was in some good
movies too. I mean you have the Antino Man stuff,

(09:31):
but Gods and Monster was was really good. And then
there was one other really good one. I think The
Mummy holds up as an action movie. I never saw that.
That weird. Yeah, when did that come out? I'm trying
to always try to decide why I didn't see movies.
It's probably like two thousand two. I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know what I was doing then it got

(09:51):
by me somehow. Um. But what you're saying before about
the shower thing, it's I've had a lot of conversations
on the show about how um, but we've never really
explicitly talked about it. But it feels like kids a
lot of times is that's how they sort of poke
around with sexuality is through these movies, Because I mean

(10:12):
sometimes people had parents that were just very openly talked
about you know, the birds and the bees and stuff.
But my parents certainly didn't. So it was that was
kind of where you learned about a lot of this stuff,
right for better or for worse. I think yeah, probably
for work, probably mostly for words, I think, especially when
you look back in those likely eighties and nineties movies,

(10:33):
like the way like the teen movies handled sex and
stuff is so weird. Yeah, I don't know, it's problematic
to look at a bunch of those movies. It's always coercive,
like it's always like we just got to trick this girl,
or I know it is. And and just before you
were here, Paul Schneider was in here and we talked
about Back to the Future was his pick. And again

(10:56):
another movie. When you look back on it, it's like,
wait a minute, there was an attempted rape that I
will say this, so they didn't play it lightly like
looking at it as an adult, it was a scary
scene in a light movie, but they played it for scary,
like Thompson had real fear in her eyes when he

(11:16):
when he opens that door. But um, I don't know
if it's getting better though, Like I've i've like not
watched a lot of like sitcoms lately, and then I'm
trying to sort of get back and do it to
see what's out there. And I was watching this new one,
this new sitcom last night called Good Girls, and they
have a plot point where again there's like an attempted

(11:37):
rape situation and it's like the pilot episode of a
sitcom and you're just like why. I was just like,
how is this happening here right now? It's yeah, I
don't know. So it's a straight up comedy. Yeah, I
think it's meant to be. Yeah, So it wasn't like
the Different Strokes episode where they something really bad happened, No,

(11:58):
and they treated it, you know. I think what they're
trying to do with Good Girls is like it's like
Breaking Bad if it were women, and to comedy like
a lighter interesting. Like, I don't it's very I don't
know's I think the verdict is still out. I don't know.

(12:18):
I again, like I said, I haven't been watching a
lot of sitcoms, so I like someone, it's hard for
me to tell, like if is this the norm of TV?
Or is this weird? Because like two of the main
characters just have like really prominent cleavage through the entire episode,
And I was like, maybe this is just something you
need to do to have a sitcom, But I don't

(12:40):
think so, yeah, I don't. Yeah, It's like I just
don't think that's necessary. I don't know, Yeah, Emily, and
I just, um, I don't watch any of the sitcoms
anymore either. But we just finished Handmade s Tale. We
were laid on that and I got to the point
at the end where I was like, I think I'm
out on this for season two. It was just with

(13:04):
everything going on in the world right now, I'm like,
I just don't know if I can keep going that dark.
I couldn't even finishing it this season. I could. I
think it's like it's weird because it feels like sort
of like required viewing for like feminist women. But I
was like, but with everything going on, like you said,
it's just like I feel like I'm assaulted by rape

(13:24):
culture like every hour of the day, so like you
don't need to see a heightened version of it, like
I know. And I couldn't decide at times if it
was like is this just an important thing for people
to watch now or are they sort of uh, are
they using that in a way that I don't appreciate. Well,

(13:44):
I don't know. I also didn't read the book, which
is embarrassing. But I think the book is like very good, right,
and I think it's a good thing. It just feels like,
first I don't know for people, for those of us,
like in mestion in it, we don't necessarily need it,
like I think, like, I think it's the same way
that like it's good for white people to read like
Tana has Coats or something, but I don't necessarily think

(14:06):
like it should be required reading for black people who
have moved that experience exactly. So yeah, I just like,
I don't know. I feel like working at Reductorous and
with everything going on in the world, I just like,
there's so much heavy stuff about being a woman out
there that I'm like, I don't need to search for it. Yeah,
there's so much heavy stuff period. Right now, I found
myself gravitating towards kind of sillyness. Yea more and more,

(14:30):
which is fine. There's time for all of it. So
watching movies with your family some did you sit around
together and as a family or go to movies? Yeah,
we would sit around sometimes. I'm trying to think of
what we would watch, Like my dad would rent stuff

(14:51):
like Uncle Buck and like I was a big I
was a big fan of um Robin Hood men in
Tights Brooks a big one. Yeah, what else I don't know. Well,
that's good though that like my family, we didn't go
to movies together and stuff, um my dad, I mean,
they just weren't that into media. They weren't so into

(15:15):
music for movies. It was a little weird. I can
see that. I I mean, we didn't go to movies
very often, at least not as a family. Like my
parents still have a hard time even though I think
they have like they're they're much more stable financially, they
still have a hard time like going out to dinner
or seeing a movie, like it's like a big event. Yeah.
That was the same with us middle sort of lower
middle class. Yeah, my parents were school teachers. So if

(15:38):
we did go to a movie, which was rare, you know,
my mom would sneak and popcorn. And the thought of
paying and this is back when movies are pretty cheap.
The thought of paying like for popcorn and sodas and
candy for kids, that just didn't happen. It was not
an option. Uh. My dad would do thinks sometimes where

(15:59):
he like, because my brother was a huge computer nerd,
he would like lock us out of the house to
make sure we got like fresh air. Um, and so
he would do that, but I would try to like
sneak back into the house to get changed so I
could ride my bike to go by Candy, and he
like knew what was up, and he like wouldn't let
it happen. So I was just like I would be
stranded outside, just like he literally locked the door. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(16:22):
I think I don't know it was. I'm sure it
was triggered by some sort of like annoyance in his
life that he was just like, oh man, those are
the days I can't do that anymore. Unfortunately, I've heard
stories about my dad literally sitting on the sidewalk in
front of my house when my mom got home when
he was in charge of watching us because he just
couldn't take it. So he would just lock himself out

(16:44):
of the house and would just be out there. Well,
we're doing god knows what, all right. So you initially
when we talked about what you were going to pick, said, um,
the baby see Version of Pride and Prejudice, which isn't
a movie, it's a mini series. That's why I didn't

(17:07):
pick it, because you would have I don't know how
many hours it is, but it's long, right, Uh. And
then notting Hill was another potential pick, and then you
landed on Bridget Jones Diary and I wrote you back
and said, well, you and my wife thought to hang
out sometime. Yeah, because her her version is actually the
Cura Nightly version. What are your thoughts on that one?

(17:29):
She loves, like, can watch that one over and over.
I've seen it and I didn't dislike it, but I
think having seen the British Mini series version, it's just
hard to appreciate that one because the so the British
Minis mini series has Colin Firth in it and a
bunch of other actors whose names I don't know, and

(17:51):
they're all really, really good, and I think it's cast
in that great way that I think a lot of
like British shows are cast, where it's not a cast
on attractiveness, it's cast on genuine acting ability. And um,
I think Colin Firth was like so striking in that
in that role that the author of the book British
Jones Diary like wrote the book with him in mind

(18:14):
as the Mr Darcy in British Jon's Diary. Yeah, so
that's how she that's why she then cast him also
in the movie version of British Yeah, he really has
that part locked down. Yeah, Fielding Helen, Yes, yes, ah,
he's so aloof he is. Um. Well, first of all,

(18:36):
I feel like a dummy because about three quarters of
the way into the movie and I watched this two
nights ago in my hotel room here. I texted Hily
I said, did you know this was like a Pride
and Prejudice, Um, not remake, but whatever inspired by. She's like,
he had, dummy, that's why his name is Darcy. Like, oh,
I just thought his name was Darcy because it was

(18:57):
an homage maybe to that, and I didn't realize it
was a bit of a modernization. It's like it's not
an easy read, Like it's not like so direct that
you're like, oh, this is obviously the story, but it's
obviously inspired by you read the book. Um, I think
I read the book, but I don't. I've read several
um Jane Austen books, so I think I might have

(19:19):
just skipped over that one because I was so familiar
with the British mini series, which because the British mini
series is so long, I think they've taken so much
of the dialogue directly from the book that you almost
don't feel the need to read the book. Yeah, I
hear that. Yeah, because it's like, I've also seen like
a black and white version of Pride and Prejudice that's

(19:39):
also really good, and it has pretty much the exact
same dialogue in certain points. And it's that's why I
feel like I've read the book, because the dialogue is
so good in that movie, like the things that the
mom says, and I don't know, it's very funny. Did
you read the Bridget Jones book? I did, didn't, Okay, Um,

(20:01):
I was really into this movie as a teenager, so
I don't. I think I was barely aware of the
book at the time and just would rewatch it over
and over again. Well, I watched it for the first time, um,
and I have to say I loved it really Yeah.
I So I rewatched this week and as I was watching,
and I was like, maybe I should have picked notting
Hill because because there's like a lot of very like

(20:23):
cringe worthy moments, and I was like, I don't know
if Chuck's going to hate this. No, I thought it
was great. I thought it was fun and uh, I
don't say cute because that kind of marginalizes it. But
it was cute in all the right ways, and uh,
I don't know, I don't liked it. I know, I
think i'd always I hate to categorize movies as like

(20:46):
either like a man's movie or a woman's movie, and
there probably aren't a ton of dudes are like, oh yeah,
Bridget Jones one of my favorites. So that's probably why
I was like, yeah, Emily, you just go ahead and
watch that one. Uh, but I thought it was really good,
and I texted Emily last night's like, this is really good.
She said, yeah, I know, of course it is. That's
so funny. What was your first experience seeing it? Um,

(21:09):
you know, I don't remember the first time, probably just
rented it or something, but at some point I got
my hands on a copy of it or like recorded
it off TV or something and then just rewatched it
over and over again as like a like a go
to comfort movie. Yes, so yeah, I don't know. Well,
those are some of the best ones sometimes. Yeah. Um

(21:32):
starring obviously Calling Firth, like you said, Renee Zellwegger, who
it was quite a bit of controversy at the time
when she was cast as an American, and uh, I
think she had to put on some weight too. To
my eyes, looked like a normal person. Right. The weight
thing is very bizarre, both like her appearance and what

(21:53):
they've listed her weight, because they say what her supposed
weight is throughout the movie and it's like a hundred
and thirty six pounds, and that like her starting point
when she feels the fattest, which like, I don't think
even on my skinniest I don't think I would get
down two d and thirty six pounds. Like that's just
it definitely was weird in the message. And I mean

(22:14):
we could talk about that, but the message that sends.
But she put on weight to play the role, and
there was a lot of talk about that, and I
knew that going into it, and then when I saw
her because I knew they pudged her up supposedly, and
then want to watch it last night, I was like,
she looks kind of normal to me. Yeah, she's still
a thin person. Yeah, but what's funny Like watching it now,

(22:36):
I can see that. But I think when I was
a teenager and I was being fed so many like
images of women via the media, in my mind, she
was kind of chebby, Like I was like, that is embarrassing,
and so it kind of like shows you how warped
your mind by media that I like bought it. And
I think also that era of TV especially, I think

(22:58):
is like maybe one of like the skin eist eras
of women in like like it was like when everyone
was wearing really low rised jeans until you were seeing
hip bones all the time, had flat stomachs, and it's like,
when I look back, I'm like, what a horrible time
to be a teenager? Um she Yeah, because I recently

(23:19):
I started trying to watch Entourage as like a joke,
and every scene just has like three models walking by
that are just like all bones, and I'm like, oh wow,
like yeah, that's what I thought I was supposed to
look like as a teenager. It's funny I watched Entourage
when it was on and liked it, and now I
look back and think, why did I like that dumb show?

(23:41):
That vapid, stupid, it's hard to watch. I didn't get
very far. Yeah, I'm gonna let myself up about that one. Uh.
It stars also not only Hugh Grant, but probably Pique
you Grant, Yeah, or in that time frame at least, right,
I think this is like maybe his first role where
he switched from like good guy to bad guy. Yeah,

(24:04):
and he after I think it's after this he did
about a boy which is like even more of an asshole,
and it's like, I think it's really cool how he's
able to switch between those two. I like this Hugh
Grant better then. And I haven't seen notting Hill, but
and I don't even think I've seen four weddings in
a funeral, But I know the character of the bumbling yeah,

(24:27):
sort of the stuttering, shy British nice guy. But I
like this guy better. Not not like him as an
a one of your friends with him, but I like
the I like his acting better. I like both of them.
It feels like he real him is probably somewhere like
in the middle of the Yeah, I don't know. I
think I heard one of the might have been Sharon McGuire.

(24:49):
The director said that he was definitely closer to the
bad Hue yeah than good Hue that yeah, um right,
hair though in this movie you're so awesome. Uh. And
then in Beth David's or Davitt's who have seen in
some other stuff, which one is she she plays Colin

(25:11):
first significant other Okay, he's like lawyer partner. But also
that relationship I feel like is never clearly defined and
it's like, okay, good, I didn't quite get it. Yeah.
The weird thing is it feels like she's supposed to
be sort of like mirroring the uh, the sister of

(25:35):
Oh my God. In you haven't seen Pride and Prejudice,
have you? It's been on in front of my face
a lot. So in Pride and Prejudice there, Mr Darcy
has a best friend named Mr Bingley, and he has
a sister named Mr Mrs Bingley, Miss Bingley, and she's
a huge asshole. And I think her assumption as like

(25:56):
the close family friends is that like she'll end up
with Mr Darcy, and she's always like planning seeds of
like how awful she thinks the main character is and
like she's just a huge bitch. So I think that
character is sort of meant to mirror her. So it's
like without the brother, without the brother character there, they're
just sort of setting it up like as though it's
just like assume that these two are going to end
up together because their lawyer partners or something. It's like

(26:18):
very weird, but yeah, I don't know all right. I
thought it was a little dense for not quite getting
what they're dealing. Yeah, no, because when I rewatched this week,
I was like, I still don't quite understand what we're
supposed to believe the relationship is between these two because
it feels like, I mean, I guess, similar to Pride
and Prejudice. Colin first character is like never really into
her at all, but she seems to think they're together

(26:41):
or something. I don't know. Even at the end, when um,
the parents and now have the big announcement, they say,
you know, he's moving to New York with his attorney partner.
And I thought that was going to be like and
they're engaged, But they weren't engaged, right, Um No, I
don't think so. I think the ad is like hoping
they'll be engaged. So, but that again makes it very

(27:03):
vague as like are they even dating? It's never been established.
I also think the plot line of like them being
like moving to New York as lawyers for an American
firm is like, is that plausible? I don't know. New
York is the big bully in this movie, because there's
also the woman from New York that Hugh Grant's character
takes up with, Oh, yeah, that's just from New York,

(27:27):
the New York office. But would you would a New
York firm ever want to hire a British lawyer? I
guess if they're doing like international law, but I don't know,
it doesn't make any sense. And then of course the
great Jim Broadbent and Jemma Jones as bridgets parents. Oh yeah,
they're great, Yeah, and he especially, I mean they were
both great, but they had the sort of the mirroring

(27:51):
subplot of the movie is their relationship kind of falling
apart and him being cuckolded by a more exciting I
guess you could say guy, which was Sad Julian I
think is his name. Yeah, yeah, I mean that mom character,

(28:11):
I think is like very delightfully annoying, similar to the
Pride and Prejudice movie mini series where it's like so
it just feels so real. The way that she like
is so like petty and I don't know, always trying
to get ahead in a weird way. Yeah, or looking
for something better too, yeah for her and her daughter. Yeah,

(28:35):
that character and Pride and Prejudice is very like um
like sort of like busybody, like too loud at parties,
being like that man makes five pounds a year or something,
you know, like she's like, I'm going to try to
match my daughters with that man, and it's just like
very obnoxious, like um, yeah, well, which is how they
kind of start this off with that first party where uh, well,

(28:59):
for of all that opening credit sequence with her singing
all by myself, it's really really fun that It's great.
I think everyone's kind of done a version of that
when no one's looking. Um. And then after I watched
about thirty minutes of it, my first thought was, is
this movie about sexual harassment only? Yeah, because that's a

(29:20):
large part of that first act as Hugh Grant, um,
you know, just like hitting on her at work. Yeah.
But and through today's lens, of course, you look at
it and think like, oh my god, you could never
send instant messages like that in an office. Well, what's
funny to me is like between that and the like
uncle character that grabs her ass. Like when I watched
as a teenager, it all seemed kind of insane, and

(29:43):
when I see it as an adult now, I'm sort
of like, yeah, everyone I know has had stuff like
that happened to them, right, So it's like not, it's
actually seems less weird now. Yeah. It is so insane
though that it does happen like that that a boss can,
i mean, send instant messages about like the length of
her skirt. Yeah. Well, also he's very attractive, so he

(30:05):
can get away with it. And it's also I I
think it's more normalized for like women even ten years
older than me, where I feel like, you know, when
you we've seen certain like me two stories come out.
I've seen women ten years older than me be like
that's happened to me, what's the big deal? And like
women my age are a little more likely to be
like that's happened to me. But I don't want it

(30:27):
to keep happening to people, right, Well, and exactly, I
think that's the progression. And then hopefully where it ends
up one day it's like that should not and will
not happen again, Yeah, you know, hopefully. Um. And then
the other thing, I noticed that everybody is smoking in
this movie, which is a weird, kind of dated thing
to do in a movie where all the characters are

(30:47):
smoking all the time. True, you don't see that a lot. Yeah,
I think also that it's like a more British thing too,
because it's like, I think New York past the like
you can't smoke and bar is law right around the
time I came here for college, which is like two
thousand three, and so my adult life people were mostly
not just like smoking around me all the time. But

(31:09):
I do I do think Britain was later to that.
If they they, I think they did well. Actually I
don't remember. I was in London a couple of years ago,
but I just remember that when I was going to
New York at first in the mid to late nineties,
it was the worst because these tiny little bars in
the wintertime with no ventilation, it's just everywhere you would go,

(31:31):
you would you would just be used to smelling. Yeah,
I know, it was just accepted. I used to go
to a bar when I was under age, and I
would hang out with improvisers at this bar and they
we would stay till closing and then they'd close up
the bar and we would stay inside and then they
would let everyone start smoking. So it was similar to
that where it was just like a smoke filled room

(31:52):
and I was like, oh wow, yeah, I'm glad this
is not allowed to happen all the time. Yeah, it's
crazy that that used to be normal and now it's
just so like if someone lit up a cigarette and
a restaurant or something, yeah, it would just be like
tard and feather and run out of town. And can
you imagine on airplanes, like everyone just smoking through like
a six hour FLA actually was on one flight, uh,

(32:13):
a Europe a Europe flight when I was like twenty,
where there was a smoking section, the only time I've
ever experienced it, and it seemed crazy to me back
then even it was just nuts, that's crazy. Uh. And
then alright, some of my favorite moments um that were
just so dumb and funny, And one of my favorite

(32:34):
things in movies is dumb humor. Um, like a dumb
joke like they're riding in the convertible and then in
the next shot Bridget has the convertible hair that mop
of hair, and it's just such a slapsticky dumb joke.
But it's just great. Yeah, she's good. I think it's Uh,
she was awesome. Yeah. I like her serious expression when

(32:58):
she tries to play it cool in those moments. I
very funny, Yeah, yeah, I was very impressed by her
comic chops. Uh. And then of course showing up at
the party. Oh holy Jesus with her playboy bunny outfit
was her line. Um, just so silly. Yeah, that's that scene,
among others I think is so painful. Like, yeah, it's

(33:20):
like the dream of showing up on the school bus naked. Basically. Yeah,
she gets dumped off at this party and play funny
outfit when no one else is dressed up. Yeah. I
love the It's like some other woman who's like sneaking
through the shrubs in her outfit or whatever. Oh yeah
the Yeah, someone else at the end of that scene

(33:42):
didn't get the message and she's like a lingerie or something. Uh.
I love that. Fatal Attraction was her heartbreak comfort movie
after a few Grant cheats on her and she's in
the apartment sitting there watching Scream watching Fatal Attraction. Every
time I see this, I'm like, oh, I should watch
that movie. And I never do ever seen Fail Attraction.

(34:02):
I feel like you, it's so prominent in culture that
you like kind of know what happened, so you do,
but you should check it out. It's great. I mean,
it is what it is, which is not some great
piece of cinema, but um, yeah, I would recommend it
because I mean, they're definitely twist and turns in that
movie that that you don't know just by observing it

(34:25):
in popular culture. Oh. Another one of the more ridiculous scenes,
and this is probably you're talking about when you're like,
oh god, it's chuck kinda even like this, but I did,
when she uh does the news reporting and slides down

(34:48):
the fire pole and just exposes her butt on television.
It's just so funny and silly. I'm glad you like
that because I think that's exactly where I was, like,
is he gonna think this is like the stupidest movie? Now?
I thought it was very funny. He had to be
in the right frame of mind for that, but I was.
And and with most of these movies, most of them

(35:08):
I had seen before. But I always want to go
into it wanting to like, it is just no fun
to sit here and talk to someone about something I
thought was dumb. Uh, this movie was dumb in all
the right ways good, so you shouldn't worry about that. Um.
And Colin Firth as a leading man, I never saw it.
I don't get his his appeal. Not really. I think

(35:33):
it's a psychological thing. I think it relates to having
sort of like a cold father. Yeah, like I don't know.
I think it's like, yeah, I think it's like this.
It's like a thrill of the chase sort of thing
of like wanting to please the unpleasable or something like, um, yeah,

(35:55):
it's it's funny because I think he's so different from
like a Brendon for rasor type, who I also am
in love with. And obviously you can see my choice
of husband in real life is much closer to like
a dumb bread and phraseer than like Colin Firth. But yeah,
I don't know, it's like, yeah, I think there's something

(36:16):
there's something about that coldness that like you want to
believe there's more to it, like more going on behind
I don't know. Yeah, yeah, And it's it's also the
classic story that you see over and over again of um,
a woman in this case and the two men. One is,
you know, the bad boy, handsome bad boy, successful, rich,

(36:39):
handsome bad boy, and the other is uh, sort of
the good guy even though he was just so cold
it was kind of hard to tell. I think I
also relate to his character in a way and why Yeah,
Like it's sort of like, don't I think I give
off that attitude sometimes to certain people, especially if I'm
like if I'm in an authority year role, because you're

(37:01):
sort of like doing all this mental math of like
how we're going to make this happen, and then you
just are not like, um, you're not focused on like
bedside manner and like the pleasant trees being yeah, being
warm and so like I relate to it in a
way where it's like you're you actually sometimes care more
than everyone else, but you are or you feel like

(37:22):
you do, but you appear as though you care the least,
if it makes sense, UM, And I think that's something
that that UM they're trying in Pride and Prejudice, I
think that they're trying Jane Austen is trying to set
up that like dynamic between the two characters, because in
Pride and Prejudice, I think both him and the um

(37:46):
female protagonists are both a little bit like that and
that's why they butt heads because they're both sort of
like a little standoffish. So I think she's sort of
like making a point about pride, I guess, or being
like not not um like catering to other people or something. Yeah, yeah,
for sure. Uh. And even though though he is very

(38:12):
kind of stoic and almost charmless through a lot of
the movie, somehow he manages even me he's a dude
in his hotel. Somehow when he tells her finally that
he likes her just the way she is, somehow that
manages to be like a really sweet moment, even though
it doesn't feel like he's earned that right watching when

(38:33):
I really watched this week, I was like, Wow, this
does feel much more unearned than I remember, and I
think in the in the pred and Prejudice miniseries, it
feels like there's so much more build up and like
hinting at him being an actual good guy. They're like, okay,
but this is sort of just like sprung on her
after the fact that she realizes he is good. Well,

(38:56):
and you know the deal, because they just keep bumping
into each other all over the place. They have the
weird history of being knowing each other when they were little.
And what did she pee in his She ran around
naked in his paddling pool? Okay, did she not pee
in it? Did I just make that up? I don't think.
I don't I don't know. I don't even know what

(39:18):
a paddling pool is. I think it's just one of
those little kids like plastic pools in the yard, right.
I didn't know they had those over there. The fight scene, well,
the blue soup was really funny. That's a great side
gag just to see anything blue on a plate, uh
that you're serving someone. But then the fight scene is awesome.

(39:39):
It was. It was so perfectly executed as to non
fighting sort of British guys apologizing to everyone in the
restaurant as they go. I read somewhere at some point
that like, so she had to gain weight for the movie,
and I guess Colin Firth and Hugh Grant both had
to get in really good shape for the movie because
they wanted to make them both be like attractive. Like um,

(40:02):
so they had like a bit of a rivalry on
set of like just like a joking like like who's
hotter sort of thing or something. So I think they
sort of like play with that in a fun way
in that scene. It was just like yeah, but I
think like, um, she would be on set like eating
doughnuts and stuff, and they would be like trying to
look their best. I think it's nice. Well, it's one

(40:24):
of the great punches, one of the great movie punches.
When he Grant finally kind of saunters outside, like what
are you gonna do? It's like I wanted to do
this for so long, Like what are you talking about?
And then he just punches them and square in the
nose and that I kind of thought that was going
to be the end of it. And then they go
through this long, kind of ridiculous extended fight scene through
this restaurant and back out on the street. But they're

(40:45):
kicking at each other and it's definitely a lot of fun.
I think, uh, have you, um, did you see any
of the sequels? Yeah, I think I've seen both the sequels.
The second one is like, okay, one that I would
never ever rewatch, Like it's just I think it's on Netflix,
but it's like it's very painful. It's just like I

(41:09):
honestly don't even remember what happens. It's just sort of
like reliving the rivalry. Like I think they just sort
of like reset for no reason, and like they're both
in the mix again. It doesn't make any sense, like
why her character would just give up and then um
they the third one is her having a baby and

(41:32):
so Colin first character is back and it's sort of
like she she hooked up with both him and Patrick
Dempsey in the same weekend. Yes, Amy, and that one,
I do kind find it funny because I just I
find Colin Firth very charming, but it's definitely not as
good of a movie. Um, and I don't really love

(41:54):
Patrick Dempsey, so I don't like I don't find it
as engaging to watch him. Yeah, I didn't. Um. I
think it's interesting that they went back to the well
after so many years, but it's a beloved character and
people love I don't know how the second one did,
but um, I don't know. I think it's kind of cool.
It's it's the only you don't see a lot of

(42:14):
comedic trilogies. Yeah, for sure. They're all directed by women,
which is kind of cool. And they all um, I
think they're partially written by what's that actress? Um blanking? Uh? Well,
the first one was written by Richard Curtis Andrew Davies
and then Helen Fielding Right, Um, and I love Richard

(42:36):
Curtis movies. What else he's fore weddings in a funeral
and love actually, which obviously is kind of cliche, but
I do I like his like sensibility. Um, you're an anglophile.
Oh yeah, a little bit. I think I was really
big into BBC America when I was a teen, and
you know, like Monty Python and stuff like that. So

(42:58):
I think there's something that feels on most like educational
about watching this movie because you're like learning British slang
along the way, Like you feel as a team, you
feel like smarter than other people. Uh, one of the
great last lines. I think I'm a big fan of
great last lines in movies. And they finally get that

(43:20):
great kiss. Nice boys don't kiss like that, and he goes, yes,
they fucking do. But it's really kind of want. It's
very like Colin Firth line. I think it is. It's
very satisfying. Yeah for an audience member, you know, That's
one of the funny things I find about Again, I'm
just gonna keep talking about the British mini series um

(43:40):
Prid and Prejudice. But they there's so much build up
and it's like it's got to be like eight episodes
or something of TV, and then they finally get together
and the end scene is like their wedding and they
kiss and it's like it feels so satisfying and you're like,
but it's just like a kiss, Like it's not even
like it's so prim but I don't know, it's so

(44:02):
much build up. It's so much build up. Yeah. I thought,
actually both of the kisses in this uh, the kiss
with Hugh Grant, that first kiss was like a really
good first kiss for a movie. The camera's really tight
and at first you kind of I mean, he's a
bit of a cad, but he's likable and it's not
like as an audience member you're going like, oh no,
don't be with him at all, because at this point

(44:23):
Colin Firth has shown no person know anything really other
than kind of being a cold fish. Um. And then
the and then the kiss with him too is put
off and put off delayed as much as they could form,
you know, an hour and forty five minute movie, not
eight episodes on the BBC. But that build up does help. Yeah,
And even when they have the fight scene and then

(44:45):
she's like hovering over him on the ground, you do
like for a first time viewing, I feel like you
don't know if she's going to get with him or not.
Like you so I didn't know, You're still not against
him fully necessary, don't know. No, I thought it was
pretty complex, like there weren't any clear like he cheated
on her, so he was a dick. But I kind
of thought she was going to go back to him

(45:07):
there with that heartfelt plead that how much he needed her,
and it was a really strong moment for her to
say no, I think you know, yeah, yes, like that
that wasn't good enough for her for her to be
needed by him totally, you know, yeah, they have so
in the in the mini series Pride Prejudice, which I'm

(45:28):
going to keep talking about, they have a character, a
character who's like sort of this character but doesn't hang
around as much where his name is Mr Wickham and
he's played by I think Alan Cumming and he's really
great and so he's sort of like a cad but
also very charming, which is sort of like like just

(45:49):
the perfect thing for that role where you're sort of
like drawn in and then you're like once they flip it,
you're like, I hate him. So, you know, it's a
that seems like a hard role to play for most people.
I think I need to watch that clearly, Yeah, I
need to watch both versions because this is a great
I mean, the story itself is sort of a classic

(46:10):
dramatic story of trying to decide between two people, um,
and that's why it keeps getting told over and over
in so many different forms. Yeah, you know, so I'll
check it out. Yeah, well I like that. I mean,
not a is super rare. But I feel like in
a lot of rom comms, even though they're like a

(46:32):
woman's medium, it's still a lot of times it's like
the guy that needs to get his act together, and
it's nice when the female protagonist is the one like
we're really on a journey with her and she's sort
of figuring it out, um, because I don't know. Sometimes
I feel like that gets confused in rom comms and
you're sort of like, whose movie is this? I don't know?

(46:54):
And this is clearly bridget Jones movie and her journey
and her care to arc. It was so satisfying from
a being a hard drinking, smoking, uh quote unquote overweight
uh spinster and afraid she's going to turn out that
way to kind of finding out who she was and

(47:15):
being okay with that it's a little corny, but it
was great, you know, yeah, very satisfying. I'm glad you
forced me to watch it. Uh so do you feel
good about that? Yeah? All right, So we're gonna finish
with two segments here, Um what Ebert said? Find out
what the great Roger Ebert thought. He gave this three

(47:36):
and a half stars out of four. Okay, that's not bad.
That sounds great. Yeah, it's funny. Everyone always goes like, oh,
what's that half star for? Why didn't it get a
perfect rating? Yeah, I guess you can't give many things
with perfect rating. No, three and a half stars, And
he says this glory b they didn't muck it up.
Richet Jones Diary, a beloved book about a heroine both

(47:58):
lovable and human, has been made against all odds into
a funny and charming movie that understands the charm of
the original and preserves it. So apparently they did right
by the book. That's good. I kind of miss him,
like I missed those as corny as it is, like
all those nineties movies that are like so heartwarming and heartfelt,

(48:20):
Like I kind of missed that vibe in movies. Yeah,
do you know what I mean, Like it's I mean,
I think sometimes it gets really like smalty, but I
think it's nice to sort of like have more heart
in movies where I think a lot of a lot
of the comedies have gotten just really like over the
top gag sort of, and then I don't know, the

(48:41):
dramas are like can be like so dark. Yeah. I
feel like Hollywood goes in these big waves of we
gotta all do the same thing m because like the
hard r came back out in vogue with like the
Hangover in those movies, then everybody had to do their
version of that instead of saying like, well we can
also to do like a sweet rom comedy right now

(49:02):
and then because these movies are good, you know, it's
a good escape. Yeah, totally. I'm sure though, if I
was like in the nineties now or like stuck with
those movies, I'd be like, we need some hard our movie,
you know, like, well they should just do all of them,
that's right, Yeah, all piling on and doing the same
kind of stuff. And then we finished, as always with

(49:23):
five questions. Um, do you remember the first movie you
saw in the theater? I think it was, um, The
Little Mermaid? But it's like very faint memory and I
was probably very little. All right, that's a good one.
Do you remember the first R rated movie you saw?
I I don't specifically, but I know that I had

(49:44):
a close friend who, um, her sister worked at the
video store that was within walking distance of her house,
and so we would go over there all the time,
and her sister or her mom had put her into
the system as being allowed to rent our movies, so
we could take out all the our movies we wanted.
Try you could do that, so we um, we watched
like everything on the horror shelf, like over the course

(50:06):
of the summer or something. So we watched like all
the lepre cons um and those were pretty intense. But
it's funny because they were so shocking at the time
that I think it was like thrilling. But if I
think about watching those movies now, it's like, so it
would gross me out so much. You don't get into
horror films anymore, No, I'm like so sensitive these days.

(50:27):
I just don't. I don't know. Like occasionally, like earned violence,
I'm okay with if I feel like it has like
a real plot point, but I don't. I don't know
I hate watching violence. Yeah, that gratuitous stuff. I'm with you.
I think you get older and you get just a
little more sensitive to that stuff in general. Yeah, and
especially having kids. Yeah, definitely having kids. Like I know,

(50:50):
especially when I was like pregnant or with a newborn,
I was just like, I can't watch any of this
just was it was so alarming. Well that's my movie,
like something like Bridget Jones that comfort food. It's just
great to have that stuff that you can go to
in your life and it's not offensive, it's not you know,
overtly sexual or violent. It's all soothing. Yeah. I also

(51:14):
think part of why I'm into British stuff is because
I find something very soothing about um British scenery, like
whether it's like countryside or like old buildings or whatever
that I just am soothed by the surrounding. So they
could be saying or doing almost anything and I'm sort
of locked in, you know, like totally. They seem to

(51:37):
do a lot of like strolling, yeah, which is a
great thing, and not like I gotta be somewhere. There's
just we're just going to stroll, yeah, or they're just
like getting rained on in a field and you're sort
of like that did you? Were you a doubt navvy fan?
I was, although again like I was never really that
tapped into the story, like it was fine, but I
was like, I just love the scenery. That helps very clothes.

(52:01):
I'll just take it all in. Yeah, Emily can watch
um movies that she doesn't even like multiple times if
she likes the house. I get that. I get that
because the some of those rooms on Dowtn Abbey are
so beautiful, and as someone who went to art school

(52:22):
and was like into colors and stuff, they're like the
way like I couldn't remember a specific room on dot
N Abbey that's like a teal, like a light teal
with gold trim, and it's like such a perfect color
like palette. I don't know, but you don't remember what
happened in the scene. I mean probably not, I don't know.

(52:42):
I also think, in a certain sort of like I
Candy Way, a lot of those period pieces I'm locked
in if they just cast attractive men. And so I
think it's like Mary's character has like a series of
like very attractive love interest every other week A chunk. Yeah,
I was, I watched the full series season of Victoria

(53:06):
on PBS, which has like very attractive casting, and I
I was telling people I was like a woman cast
this show, because that's actually one of my pet peeves
about media is like I feel like so often, you know,
they cast like just like a schlubby dude, like a
Seth Rogan and then like the most beautiful woman in
the world. You know. Not that I'm against that like

(53:30):
here and there, it's just weird when that's like the
entirety of media, and you're like, and like, I also
am someone who, like I guess in a way, I
just like enjoy nudity, Like I think it's funny and
fun and like again, I went to art school and
we would do figure drawing, and so there's something just
like regardless of the shape or size of a person,
I think it's just like satisfying to see munity. And

(53:53):
it's like, not, you don't see it in our culture.
So like I you see all these naked women in
media all the time, and I'm like, why when do
we get to see a naked guy? Forgetting Sarah Marshall,
then yeah, I think that there's a general feeling that

(54:16):
like nobody wants to see that yeah, I think that's dumb.
I don't know. I like, I think our culture is
like so uptight about nudity. I don't mean that, I
just mean like just a naked guy, naked guy. Yeah,
Like it's I don't know. I think they do. I
think they they. I think that's one of those things
that people won't admit to but they do want. Like

(54:38):
it's sort of like I mean, it's like internalized sexism.
I think because we like, for like we look at
our stats on Reductress because we're you know, monitoring traffic
and stuff, and you can tell the likes we get
on Facebook and other social media platforms are very skewed
compared to the actual site traffic in terms of gender.

(55:01):
So more more men visit redactress and read articles than
would admit to it by liking this item media. So
I think there's a lot of stuff like that that
they've started to study about, like porn, people's viewing habits
and like what they're into where there they won't say
what they're into, but they are into um, Like they've

(55:26):
like they've like when they've pulled people on homosexuality, Like
men would not admit to homosexual urges but they you know,
they like could monitor the blood phot of their penis
or something and tell that they are responding. You're lying,
like more men are bisexual than whatever. Admit to it. Oh,
it's for sure a spectrum. Yeah, anyway, I don't know

(55:48):
how we got here nudity. Yeah, I think I said
that no one wants to see a penis, and you said,
now we all do. I think people do. Or I
think even if they don't, I think they're not as
phased by it as we think they would be, Like
it's it shouldn't be as weird as it is. I think,
like I'm not, like I guess, like obviously I'm a

(56:10):
heterosexual woman, and so there's part of me that wants it,
but even less than even more than one. Again, I
think I just want us to be it to be
more normalized. Yeah, I mean in this country, for sure,
you grow up and especially God as I grew up
Southern Baptists, like you were taught that that is like
the dirtiest thing in the world. And I mean my
mother in law, she they have lived in a couple

(56:32):
different countries, and they you know, when they raised kids
in other countries, like a lot of kids just run
around naked. And that bothers me too, Like I not
that I need to, but the fact that if I
were to post like nude photos of my kids on
social media, it would be viewed as like me like
asking for something like it's just is viewed in such
a weird way where it's like it's just a kid,

(56:55):
like this is just what our bodies look like. It's
haveing a daughter, a two and a half year old daughter. It's, uh,
there's the innocence that pre shame innocence is so like
you just want to protect it for so long because
you know eventually something's going to happen to take that away.

(57:16):
Um and uh. One of the routines in our house
when we give her a bath I usually give the
baths is she thinks it's hysterical to run around the
house naked. As soon as I take her clothes off
to her in the tub, she says, I want to
show mom and naked baby. And I know that Emily
loves it. And I'm like, oh sure, sure, naked baby.
And she runs in there and we all laugh and

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it's hysterical, and it's just that's that's gonna go away.
That's gonna get ruined at some point in life too.
And then they'll my kids will say I'm naked. They're
so pleased, so wonderful, it's so great. And my daughter
is in like a real loving bathphase this week, and
she's like she was doing this thing the other day
where she was like on her hands and knees and

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then she was just like slap being her butt into
the water over and over again, and it was the
funniest thing. But again I was like, I can't post
this on social media because people will make up weird
things about it. I know, it's a real shame. I'm
just it's but it's so joyous that like love being naked,
and why are we taking that from because then it

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goes away and then then it's turns into a weird
bad thing, supposedly because we're in America. Well that was
we should have a side podcast weird thing in American
pride and prejudice and uh, weird American things. Um do
will you walk out of a bad movie? Um? I

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probably not, because but it's more like that frugal thing
I was talking about of being raised to not waste money,
like you've got to get your money's worth, but I
have well, so since I've had kids, I almost never
get to a movie. So if I do, it's like,
I really want to see this movie, and you probably
picked a good movie. You would not walk out. I
wouldn't like risk it on a dumb movie. So but

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I will now that I have kids, because time is
so precious, I will turn things off like five minutes
in all the time and just be like I'm done. Yeah,
Like nope, yeah, Uh do you have a guilty pleasure?
I think I've listed them. I mean this, Bridget Jones
is one of them. Uh, notting Hill. I like, I
don't necessarily feel guilty, but these are movies I would

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not ask Peter to watch with me. So has he
seen Bridget Jones? I think so? Yeah, it just probably
because I've watched it so many times. Um and then yeah,
so these are all in the mix along with like
Notting Hill and um, about a Boy it's a good one.
That's a good movie. Yeah, um yeah, what else it was?

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It was the kid that is now grown up? That
wasn't about a boy? Um, I can't think of his name,
and he's I can't think he's an X men And
I still like he's still get yeah, and he grew
up to be this like a great, you know, great looking,
handsome man, and he was just such a sweet little
kid in that movie. I love that movie. But that

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was Nick Hornby, right, Yes, I like Nick Hornby movies. Uh.
And then finally movie going one on one. Um, before
you had kids, in the olden days, when you and
Peter I would get to the movies, what was your routine? Um,
So Peter is more into routine than me, and so
he his thing is to try to get um sort

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of like in the middle of the theater, the row
of seats that has a railing in front of it,
so you can put your feet up on the railing,
which is I now have come around to it as
like a nice thing because you don't want to be
putting your feet next to someone's head. But it is
kind of hard to sit upright in some of those
seats moving your feet around. I agree. So that's like

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one of the routines. I don't really have much other
than that. It's like if I I mostly would try
to avoid concession stand just because of the price and sugar,
but if I'm hungry, I guess I would get like
popcorn or sometimes like a slushy. Alright, yeah that's nice
and indulgent. Yeah, it's funny. We both have that thing.
It's so hard to get out of your system that,

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oh the popcorn is so expensive. Yeah, you know, even
though like I've got the money to buy the popcorn now,
it's just hard to give yourself permission. Yeah, there are
certain things I like, I don't know, I've definitely gotten
a lot more indulgent as I've gotten older, just like
teaching myself how to be like other people, so I'll
do it. But there's still such like a thrill of

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spending money on certain things. Yeah, and a thrill of
a good deal. Yeah you know, yeah for sure, Yeah
this was on sale. But I think that I mean,
I'm trying to like rewire a lot of that stuff
out of me because I think there's a unhealthy side
of it. And I think sometimes the thrill of a
good deal makes you buy stuff that you don't need
because you're just buying cheap stuff. And yeah, you know,

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it feeds into that like consumer crap model. Yeah. And
I also got to a certain age where I realized
and this is something that I had to learn on
my own was that you do get what you pay
for most times, and sometimes it's better spend a little
bit more money on something that's actually well made and
not garbage. Especially with clothes and shoes. It's like you
could have like three crappy shirts that are going to

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fall apart in the washer, you can have like one
nice shirt. Yeah, all right, this is great. Yeah, thanks
for having me, Thanks for coming on, Beth. How about that, folks.

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Bridget Jones Diary a movie that I had long ignored
because I thought it was just a chick flick, and
it turns out it's just a well written, fun uh
wonderfully acted comedy, um hit all the right notes, just
as still lee as it needed to be in the
right places, has some great dumb humor in the right places.

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And I really enjoyed it, and I really enjoyed talking
to Beth Newell about this. Beth is great. There was
a lot of fun and it was interesting some of
the side conversations we got into on this one too,
So uh, that was kind of one of my favorite parts.
So I hope you all enjoyed it, and thanks for listening.
And until next week, why don't you get out of

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your comfort zone and watch a movie you might not
think you like. This week Movie Crush has produced, edited, engineered,
and scored by Noel Brown from our podcast studio at

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Pond City Market, Atlanta, Georgia,