Dear Movies, I Love YouI Saw What You Did - Experience The Unknown
THIS BONUS EPISODE ORIGINALLY AIRED ON 9/9/2021
Danielle and Millie come up with an alternate title for Harry Potter, Danielle pitches a new way of going to the movies, and the ladies continue to read listeners' wildest moviegoing experiences.
Hi, everybody, Welcome to a bonus episode of I Saw What You Did.
My name is Millie to Cherco. I'm Danyelle Henderson, and hey.
Y'all, we're you caught us talking about a television show.
Right at the top.
I just told Danielle that I just started watching The White Lotus.
I know, I haven't seen it yet. I don't know what to think of it. Well, I was waiting.
Until the last episode dropped so that I could binge it, which I think it or I think it just dropped a couple of weeks ago, and so I'm going to binge it this weekend. But I love Mike White in general, but what is this show? Like it's the maybe it's like the resort aspect of it, or like the rich people aspect of it. Like I've already watched Succession. Do I need to watch this too?
Well?
Okay, so like to me, Okay, I love Mike White. I loved Enlightened, Okay, I was that was, I swear to God, one of the only times in my life where a television show got canceled and I like emailed somebody, like I emailed some customer service thing. I don't even know what it was, to be honest, and you know, I work in the same company as HBO, so I don't even know what I was really doing. But I was basically like, I'm pissed off that this show got canceled or whatever.
I mean.
I was so pissed when that one off there.
Yeah, it was a beautiful show. Oh my god.
Having said that, there's a part of me that thinks that there is. First of all, I don't know anything about it. I went and completely blind. I just know that Mike White did it. And then I was like, I'm kind of trying to figure out what's going on because part of me thinks it might be kind of like enlightened in the sense that you know, there's some kind of like rich white person dealing with their spirituality type of shit, like big question type shit. But at the same time, I'm like, is something creepy about to happen and I don't know it, Like what is up? Like it there's a creepy vibe to it, and I can explain it.
Oh, I'm excited to watch and then we can talk about it, so I can have you finished it or have you just started?
No, I'm only on like the third episode, I think, okay, I can catch up to that, but I also don't know what it's about. That's I think I'm trying to figure out, like, what.
Is this show about?
Is it a horror thing? Is that an existential meditation? I don't know what's going on. All I know is that there are two teen girls on the show and I fucking hate them Planet simps, planning Simps.
This is what also cracks me up from from the side of things as somebody who writes television. Yeah, I cannot tell you how many meetings I've sat in where people are like, well, can.
We just like amp this up a little bit.
Basically, I'm constantly talking to producers who want to deaden the effect of something to make it more easy to explain. So they're looking for things, but like, yeah, you can just watch this and you know what's going on. So it is very surprising to me that a show made it on the air that nobody knows what is happening, but they're watching it anyway.
Yeah, So that's really interesting that you say any of that, because I feel like there's been this kind of running technique in a lot of TV over the past.
I don't know, ten fifteen.
Years where like, I don't know if it's that they're trying to be deep, but the show itself is very deadened, like you say, like it's very flat, it's very you know, like characters sort of don't really reveal themselves quickly. And I'm like, is that because people are thinking that this is deep? I don't know what this is because it reminds me of Mad Men. Actually that's kind of like where I first figured it out. And you know, I mean, come on, we all love it Enigma when it comes to like television characters and blah blah blah blah. But I was like, now everything is like that, like every show is like that, And I'm like, is that what's happening in the show? Am I waiting for? I'm either waiting for like spiritual answers or fucking horror like Koss Garbage.
And you probably won't find out until like season five what was actually going on. Yeah, that's what people are also going for where it's like, oh, yeah, I don't tell us anything in the first two three seasons, just keep it going.
I'm like, wait what.
Yeah, no, and I and I'm sure everybody who's listening right now has already seen it or knows what's going on.
I have not read.
I know that there's some thing that happens on the finale that's a big deal, but I don't know what it is.
Like I said, I completely went.
And blind, So you know, this will all be null in this episode, will be null and void by the time I'm at Airs. But I'm just saying that, Like, at this current moment, I'm like, I don't know what I'm watching. I'm very puzzled by it. I don't even know if I like it. That's the other thing is that I'm like, am.
I enjoying this?
What am I watching? I love Natasha Rothwell? I fucking love Jennifer Coolidge.
Oh those two just and I have not seen this show, but in general I adore them. Natasha Rothwell is so goddamn.
Funny, holy shit, like honestly the funniest. And I was so happy to see her in this because again I didn't know who was in it, and I was like, oh my gosh, she's the best. And then Jennifer Coolidge is literally the greatest person on earth. So I was like, Okay, great, there are the people that are keeping me invested right now, so hopefully it continues.
But my favorite story about Jennifer Coolidge is that she pretended to be twins to date like two different What a genius she has, Like the most bonkers stories.
Her life has been wild.
But yeah, like at some point in her life pretended to be twins so that she could date like two different dudes.
Oh my god, absolute fucking queen, Queen of the night. I love her so much.
Well, I this kind of confusion about like the what am I watching? Sounds like the kind of confusion you have when you fall asleep in a movie and wake up.
How's that for a segue? That's sick perfecto.
So, as you can imagine, the mail bag keeps rolling. We keep getting emails from people who have fallen asleep in movies, who have had weird movie going experiences. So we're gonna do some more mail we I don't know, I mean, it.
Can't be stopped.
Once you open the floodgates, floodgates deliver, right.
Oh yeah, keep them coming. Once you open the floodgates. The floodgates deliver. Is I think like carved on a stone somewhere on the top of the hill, oh.
My god, Well, do you want to read the first one, because then I can read the one after. Okay, cool?
Absolutely so. Our first email is from Larissa. Larissa says, Haya love the podcast. I look forward to every Tuesday for a new episode. I wanted to give you one of my funny movie theater experiences per your request. My mom took me to see one of the Star Wars movies that had come out at the time, and we were running a little late. The theater that we went to gets crazy dark, to the point where you can't see your hand in front of your face dark when the movie starts. The movie had started with the prologue, and of course the screen was dark and the theater was dark. My mom whispers to me to just pick a seat and sit down real quick. Of course, this was before cell phones were really a thing, so I couldn't use the flashlight option and just had to pick blindly. I picked somewhere in the back and proceed to sit down. As I am sitting down, I notice I have sat directly in the middle of this older gentleman's lap. He yelps, excuse me, and I shoot up really quick and say I'm so sorry.
And run out of.
The aisle to find two seats on the opposite side. My mom and I are just dying laughing through the entire prologue, and when the movie ends, we make sure to be a couple of the last people to leave so I don't have to face the man I sat on. I'll never forget it. Thanks for reading. Look forward to a new episode, Larissa. Oh that is hilarious.
I mean, I don't even know what that man was imagining when that happened. Like, I'm sure he didn't understand what was happening, right if it was so dark and he literally just like, oh, somebody's just sat on me.
Okay.
Also, I'm imagining like the deepest Star Wars nerd he was like, yeah, at this theater for an hour waiting for this movie to start. Is totally settled in. He took the day off to get away from his kids.
I mean, I swear to God, I have done something. I won't say I've sat on somebody, but I have done things in the middle of the dark in a movie theater, like where I have you know, stepped on somebody's foot or like you know, accidentally knocked somebody, you know, whatever and I'm always really forgiving and that kind of stuff because I'm like, Okay, I get it, we're all in this dark movie theater and moviig deal.
But then it's like, you know, how there are.
People out there that get fucking unbelievably bothered by shit like that, and they're like, oh my god, I can't fucking believe this woman sat on me.
And then they go on social media and be.
Like this bitch fucking said on me a movie theater, and You're just like, calm downie down, it's the dark. How is anybody knowing what the fuck is going on?
Right? I also kind of when people get really upset when you're trying to get into the aisle and they've already sat down, and I'm like, if you could just calm down for five seconds, I could have been like sitting down on my seat by now. I just need you to move your legs a minute. I know there's like a whole Career Enthusiasm episode about that, but totally, but like, just move your legs. People are gonna sit near you in a movie theater. Get used to it.
Yeah, I think that's kind of like, really what it's about is that there are so many people that like go to in public spaces and demand like absolute perfection, Like they're just sort of like, oh, I can't be bothered, I don't want to be touched, I don't want to be anything. And I mean, I just think that's unrealistic, honestly. And even though we had an episode where I was saying that I had this like irrational thought that nobody should be sitting next to me in a movie theater right now, because I'm like, we're in COVID.
But even then.
I'm just sort of like, Yo, if you leave the house, you make a contract with the world. That's like, I have to be around a people, and that's the way it goes. Otherwise, don't leave the fucking house right completely.
And to the point where I think, instead of making everything more personalized, like you know those little helmets you can walk around in and like, you know, you can sit in your own little booth and watch your own little movie with just the person you're with, I think we go harder in the other direction and we start making people sit on strangers laps in movie theaters.
You get to pick your stranger.
Larissa's gonna head up the charge Laris's in charge of the whole program.
Listen, now, I need to know how this is gonna work. So the person that sits in the actual seat pays a price, one flat fee. The person who sits on the lap discount free, free, free, okay free. I mean, could that get a little chaotic? Imagine people want you, I want to go see this movie for free, I'll send someone's lap.
I don't care. Yeah, it's gonna get chaotic.
There's gonna be lawsuits, like you're gonna have to do like a whole background check to keep creeps out. It will be so much more trouble than it's worth. But is it worth it to get people comfortable with the idea of being in public again?
Just a thought experiment, just saying.
You are a chaos agent to the bitter core like you're just like yo, let's create the system.
We'll get lewis at to started.
People get to send laps for free to go see a free movie. And the fallout it's gonna be terrible, but whatever. I'll just set the pieces in place and then I'll just let everybody else duke.
It out, let them let me figure it out. If I was if I was a teenager.
I would I would see every movie for free and be like, I don't know who you are. I'd bring a whole bag of stuff, like I've got a pillow, a padded pillow that i can sit on so I'm not feeling any boners or fingers. I've got deodorant spray. I'm going for it, like I'm gonna make sure this is it's free. I'm doing it chaos agent full effect. Let's try it, Jesus.
Yeah, it's like I remember when I was, like in college, I used to take my student load money and buy tickets to go to New York.
Oh totally. I bought a fucking tattoo with my student loan money.
Yeah. Yeah. So back in the day air Tran which used to be valued g I don't even know if air Tran's still around. Basically, they used to do this thing called Experis, which meant like, if you were in college or under a certain age, you could fly stand by for like fifty bucks. The problem is is that you had to get there pretty much the night before and like wait out the flights. So essentially, like you could get the fifty dollars ticket once everybody on the plane has already sat down and get there and you get their ticket, and then you would have to wait and if for whatever reason, that flight was booked, you had to wait for the next flight. So me and April, my friend April, we used to literally sleep at the airport on the floor to wait to get on these fucking stand by flights because we were so fucking cheap we didn't want to spend any money. I can imagine this is the same situation where yeah, you know, nineteen years old, or like, I really just want to go see goddamn the New A twenty four movie. I guess I'm just gonna have to sit in some crazy boner lap, you know, to do it. Like He's basically you accept so little at that age just to do something for free, right.
One hundred percent, And it's gonna be like people lining up outside like they're lining up for a concert. Because I think there should also be an extra added bonus where you pay for your seat, but you can pay extra if you don't want someone sitting in your lab. So like, let's say your ticket is fifteen bucks, you give me twenty five bucks, and you don't have anyone sitting in your lap.
See you need to be on the board of Uber.
Okay, you really know how to do these like upsell things, goddamn chaos agent.
All it takes is you just introduce the worst possible idea and and then you just like keep adding levels to make it manageable.
You're at a certain level.
You're paying like two hundred dollars to see a movie because you just don't want to fuck with any incon completely completely.
If you want to live in a world where you're on your own and nobody bothers you guess what, billionaires, Now you've got to pay for it. Get down here with the rest of us. Otherwise someone's sitting on your fucking lap. Yeah, Larissa, Larissa, we got a new job for you.
Hit us up.
Oh my god, thank you for writing us. Now we've spun this into a business idea.
You want me to read this next one? Yeah?
Okay, ooh, this one's meaty. This one is from Delaney, who's a pronouncer. She and her that's a great name, Delaney. Yeah, let's see. Dear Millie and Danielle. I just wanted to express my thanks for your amazing podcast. I have finally cut up on it after a friend recommended it to me with the claim that I would love their thoughts on Jack Torrance being.
A fuck boy. Spoiler alert. She was very right.
I wanted to thank y'all for your humor and intelligence and cleverness when it comes to movies. Your episodes have gotten me through many nights of working on developing my syllabus for the first year of teaching, and have led to my watchless growing with almost every episode. Thank you for being the amazing, funny and awe inspiring women that you are. I am also adding to this email my love for your Kingsman the Secret Service episode. While I am not really able to afford an ongoing Stitcher Premium status, I am keeping it for as long as I can to ensure that I can listen to that episode whenever possible. Daniel's bringing up of how this film has had a hold on a person is beyond accurate. When this film came out, I was a senior in high school and during its entire theater run and we'll move to second run at our smaller local theater, I saw Kingsmen a total of twenty one times. I have written yeah wow. I have written several essays on the topic, some of which were adapted to video for classes and presentations.
I adore this movie.
For so many reasons, a number of what y'all touched on. I agree that the final scene is awful, and I don't think necessarily the post credit scene of Eggsy mirroring Harry really makes up for it. But I can still never stop recommending this movie to people. I could talk NonStop about how it queers the spy film genre, from Eggsy being depicted as having more character traits aligned with the traditional Bond girl, to Valentine and Gazelle being displayed as equals and villain characters that genuine believe what they're doing is right. To Harry while being portrayed as the traditional Bond protagonist being heavily queer coded by both films, the second movie Wow, and Colin Firth himself. If you two ever watch or talk about Kingsman The Golden Circle, I will be so beyond excited to listen. I've dug into that film from my analytical work as well, and can't stop talking about how they did Agent Whiskey So Dirty and Pedro Pascal for that matter, given Vaughn's initial plan to have him be the agent Tequila, which is a lot to unpack, and how Poppy was initially a way scarier villain in the original cut script. Anyway, I'll boil this down to another thank you for giving your listeners call Me by Abrouve. It was such a treat and I am so pumped to keep listening. Have an amazing week, Delaney.
Wow, that email was a dissertation unto itself, and I am so grateful for it. Delaney, you're teaching, You're developing your first syllabus. It is so hard to be a teacher to try to afford things like st your premium.
Call Me by your Bruve with such a fun episode to.
Record, and I do think that it brings a lot of this kind of deep analytical thought out of people, because I think she's completely correct that it queers the traditional spy movie genre. And I don't think you've seen the second one, The Golden Circle, even though your boy chan Chan Tit Taits is in it.
I know every time I go to try to watch that movie, I'm like, come on, Chandy.
Tates and Pedro Pascal, who listen. I just rewatched Game of Thrones because I'm in that kind of anxiety spiral with the way the world is right now, then I just have to watch things I've already watched, so I can just zone out, Like if I'm not watching movies for this podcast, I'm just watching things I've already watched.
Okay, So here's where I admit another fucking gap in my pop culture knowledge. I have never seen Game of Thrones to the degree which if somebody was on Game of Thrones and is now like a super fucking famous movie star, I have no idea who they are. So you're telling me that Pedro Pascal was on Game of Thrones, let.
Me tell you he was on Narco's.
He's been in a bunch of stuff, but I believe that the Game of Throne season that he was on kickstarted his career into hyperdrive. Like that is why he is everywhere now, and he is so hot in that episode.
He's just so hot in that season. He's like this.
Totally by like sexual Prince guy, sexual prince Like he's just really hot that whole series.
And get this.
So last week a friend of mine posted a picture on the instagrams. He's an actor, and he tagged me in it because it was like a picture like my book and all this kind of stuff.
Pedro Pascal likes the picture.
I completely forgot that they acted in something together and they know each other, And instantly I texted him and I'm like, where's that hookup? Okay, I just googled him. Yeah, he is hot as fuck, horny lady medicine show. Here we are every time it just evolves into this, but we can't help it.
He kind of looks like Diego. Luna's like older brother. Yes, which I am here for one thousand percent. Okay, I'm in Narcos. Seems like my thing, right, I've never seen Narcos either, So, oh.
You're starting with Narcos and then you're gonna watch Game of Thrones. Even if you just watch his season and you don't know what's going on in the whole series, you'll be fine.
I also see that he's in The Mandalorian, which I will probably not watch.
Got to be honest.
You know, you know my track record with anything relating to Star Wars.
Oh yeah, or Marvel.
But Narcos is could be my thing because it's like a drug crime yany drama.
It's like a heady drama.
I think you're gonna like Narcos and he's just a phenomenal actor. And I instantly horny Lady Medicine show. As soon as I saw that he liked it, I was like, Yo, where's the hookup? And my friend just texted back he is a millionaire, millionaire Like, I'm not even gonna try it.
Let you fuck off, get away from all my friends.
Oh my god, well listen, I'm down also to delay me giving a little bit of like context and insight to the Kingsman and the Secret Service franchise?
Is it a franchise too? Yeah?
You said that it turned into video? Where is it? Where's the video? Can we watch it? Because you know, if you want to teach me about what that movie is, if you want to tell me what happened in that final scene or your interpretation of it, I'll watch that YouTube video.
I'll go to your lecture. We'll bring you on the show. You can do a whole episode.
Yeah, sign me up, man, I need to be taught about confusing movies sometimes, and so there we go.
I would love that.
I would love for someone who's like really good at breaking down sci fi to come on the show.
Please, you know, I would love that although you do such a great job, I mean, you really make it digestible because a lot of times I'm like.
Uh, sometimes you just have to talk about Ruth Negger's pants to make Speace enjoyable.
Some people go up to space and they worry about like atmosphere and air quality. I'm like, what's up with the outfits? I need to know about the pants. Yeah, I'm just I'm basic like that. I'm a basic sci fi person, right, It's the.
Best way to be. It's how you get into sci fi, like what is happening? And you just pick a topic. You're like, what's going on with that? And then boom, You're into sci fi before you know it.
There we go, There we go.
I'm going to read this next email because when I read this, I just laughed so hard, so hard. So this emails from Kelly, and Kelly says, Hi, So, when I was a young child, I decided to take advantage of my dad's tendency to fall asleep immediately to get him to take me to.
See the South Park movie.
True to form, he fell asleep in the first five minutes while the whole town sang a cute see disneyesque tune and I got to stay and watch the whole very R rated movie. I'm still a little amazed that he didn't figure it out until we got home and my mom found out and got mad. Thanks for the wonderful show and congrats on the new house, Kelly.
Thank you, Kelly.
This made me left so hard because I love taking advantage of the knowledge that your dad is gonna fall asleep in a movie.
I love that.
Kelly is also a chaos agent. Basically like the best move ever. Right, I had that problem. Well, first of all, I could never get my dad to actually go to movies in the theater.
It is truly diabolical, and I just love it.
Yeah.
I love that.
Someone was that diabolical and they're like, let's go see this cartoon and he's like, Okay, snooze. Oh my god, I'm watching these cartoons say fuck and shit and piss and singing songs about wild things.
Dude.
Such such a great move. Hats off to Kelly. Thank thanks for writing. Speaking of falling asleep, here's another email we got from Jennifer. It's another short and sweet Hello ladies. Not only did I fall asleep during Twister, possibly the loudest film ever made. But I was on a first date at the time, yay me, and no I was not asked to go on a second date. Thank you, Jennifer A. Uh, fall asleep on a date is so fucking funny.
Look, you gotta be And if they can't handle you at your falling asleep in a movie theater, then they don't deserve you falling asleep into a bowl of soup at dinner. Like you gotta be yourself. I think that's great. You're like, look, this is what you're getting into. If you're someone who's upset, then I'm going to fall asleep in some movies.
Then move it along. Listen.
I have actually been falling asleep on in my life by somebody I was dating, and at the time I was fucking super pissed. But now I'm like, oh, duh, do you know me? I talk so much and sometimes people are just fucking tired from the day They don't want to hear me talk about the fucking plot points for Dante's peak, like.
You know, and again, move it along.
You don't want to be with that person, so peace, But now you know that because of the falling asleep, I think that's a I think you dodged.
Several bad dates maybe with this person.
I'm just gonna say, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this person is not worth your time. And uh, I'm glad you didn't go on that second date because this is absolutely hilarious that you fell asleep during Twister, which is definitely the loudest movie.
It's like the whole thing we talked about in the episode with the white noise. I think it is just like white noise to a certain degree, like something is very.
Loud and jarring.
You're just like, hmm, this is kind of like I got like a little sleep machine sitting in front of me. But honestly, you know what would have been like the best meet cute is if both of you fell asleep during Twister. I mean, oh, Mary, that person a meeting, Ah, that would be cute.
And especially if you weren't on a date and you were just strangers and you just like conked heads and fell asleep in the theater. Better than you've got mail. I drooled on a stranger during a movie. That's the movie I'm writing.
Oh my god, I love nothing more than a screwball comedy esque Conking of Heads.
Ah my favorite thing. Oh, oh my goodness. The sleep train keeps rolling, It keeps rolling.
We got this incredible email from Courtney from Wisconsin. Yes, which has its own font and its it's got its own format. This is fucking great.
Okay.
It starts off with I mean this feels like a term paper. A brief excert of movies I've fallen asleep to in the theater. Number one the Texas Chainsaw Masacer from two thousand and six, Number two, Cars two from twenty eleven, Number three, The Right from twenty eleven, Number four, The IDEs of March from twenty eleven. Let me ask you about twenty eleven, Courtney, Did you have like a narcolepsy that year? Why did you fall asleep for three movies in twenty eleven? What is going on there? Twenty eleven was not your ear, I have to say. And number five The Accountant from twenty sixteen. And then they go on to write, I will turn thirty one in October, so you do the math. I've been an old woman since I was a child, cries into the tish. I head up, my slave, I hear you.
Glad to have the.
Opportunity to write in it gives me the chance to share how much I look forward to the podcast every week because while I absolutely love the movie talk, I stay for everything else. Listening to the two of you is truly a bomb for my soul. When I put you on, it's like I found my cool older sister, weirdo soulmates. I most sincerely mean that as a compliment. Thank you for your vulnerability, your wisdom, your insights, your goofiness, your wit in your heart. With love, Courdy from Wisconsin. PS give me the spoilers because you know I'm not making it through the whole movie cool.
Thank you, Courtney.
I don't know why of that whole list, Cars two is making me laugh the most. Ah, and that's right after the Texas chainsaw massacre. Just so you can see the disparity of films that Courtney will.
Fall asleep too. It is killing. It's so funny. But here's the thing about.
This numbered list, Okay, is it organized based on like how hard you slept? So like did you sleep fucking huge, diseased or in the Texas chance I ask or remake? And then Cars two you were like, well, I was awake for maybe like ten minutes, but for the rest of it, I was fucking conked out, Like I'm just curious the ranking because it's not chronological, No, it's it seems to me like is it from the most ridiculous to the least ridiculous? I guess I'm confused, but I love it. I love the thought experiment, right.
I just love thinking about when you have that many movies that you've fallen asleep, that you've fallen asleep in front of. Is there like a certain point where you can't make it like twenty minutes into every movie I'm out?
Or is it like it?
It depends like you said on the on the ranking of the film that maybe you'll make it five minutes into The Accountant, but you'll make it twenty five or thirty minus into The IDEs of March.
I love it, Courtney, are the best, And we're not going to give you spoilers. You're just gonna have to look at that Wikipedia.
Well, you know.
And I was thinking about this the other day too, because we actually did spoil The Lost Boys, which I feel very good about because everybody say the Lost Boys for the most part, and if anybody is going to take us to task for ruining the Lost Boys. We can just hash it out in person at this point because I'm just like, come on, that movie.
Everyone's seen that movie for the most part.
But I do still feel very weird about the spoilers thing. I mean, it just it feels like, I don't know, it feels like you got to leave a little something for somebody. And yes, you know, And I always talk about this with the older movies too, where I'm like, no, you guys got to watch this shit, I'm not giving this away for you. You know.
That's how I feel for the most part that most of the movies we discuss, we want you to watch them. Yeah, Like we hope that one day you will watch them. And it's easier to not spoil a movie leave that option for people who actually want to see it than it is to spoil it and hope that people will still watch the movie knowing what happens.
Because here's the thing.
If you want movie spoilers, they're out there for you. You can find out what happens at the end.
Yeah.
Wikipedia usually gives spoilers, so it's like, yeah, just Wikipedia, But yeah, I don't know what it is, and I think it's because I think it's because a lot of people write to us and say that they don't really like movies or they haven't.
Really enjoyed movies. So there's this moment.
Where like, well, what the fuck, I'm on no cliff notes for you, Dan Amazon out here spoiling shit because you know, so you can then go to a dinner party and actually, smart you big fakers.
Oh good, we watched the movies. Watch the movies. We do get a lot of email from people who are like, I don't watch any movies ever.
I love your podcast, and I'm like, how thank you.
Actually, that's the reason why they're here is because they love you, and they love Cholsey and they love the vibe, right, which is great.
That's a great thing, but you know, I think they love us, and it is it is great, but it's also like, huh, we have a lot of thought into these movies.
Why you don't watch?
I know? And that's what I think is ultimately the moral dilemma for us is that we're like, Okay, if y'all ain't out here watching movies and we're just spoiling them for you, then you know that's given you. That's like cheating that's like, yes, we're That's like we're taking.
You to the movies knowing that.
You're gonna fall asleep within the first five minutes, so we can watch south Park uncut, right, Like, that's the situation we're in.
So that's why we don't really do it.
I mean, you know, it depends on the film, of course, but at the same time, we're just feeling weird about it. So that's that you must experience the unknown at some point.
That's how I feel. And there we have the title of our episode. Let's change the name of the show to experience the unknown.
I mean, listen, I'm the type of person that hates fucking surprises. Normally, I hate pranks, I hate surprise birthday parties, I hate all that stuff. But I'm never in the moment where I'm just like, well, I just now I just need to be constantly shielded from any potential unknown situation.
To me, it's like it doesn't matter.
Part of the joy of living is wondering if a movie is good or not. I guess you know, so figure it out for yourself.
We are chaos agents.
We sit on a lap and watch a movie you've ever seen before, heard about or read anything about and just be surprised.
Sit on a lap.
This next email is There's I was again rolling from one part in particular, but this whole email is very funny.
Dear Milly and Danielle.
My falling asleep in the theater story might not be as interesting as most, but mine was during Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part one.
I haven't rewatched.
The movie since seeing it in theaters, so my recollection of the plot is flimsy at best. In fact, the only thing I really remember is falling asleep while Potter wanders the forest while trying to summon his special ghost Deer. Falling asleep during a movie I haven't seen before is practically unheard of for me, especially as I've gotten older. Falling asleep during a movie I know well happens all the time. I don't understand that sentence, but there it is. Sometimes if my brain won't shut up, I'll turn on John Wick and clock right out. So when I felt myself getting drowsy during Harry Potter, I tried to fight it, but it turns out watching a bunch of British kids with zero survival skills living in the forest without a shovel to bury their poop is the ultimate sleep aid. The next thing I know, it's a completely different scene. It had to have been a good ten minutes or so in movie time. A frickin' week has gone by for these kids, and they're still in the woods. I was like, Oh, I fell asleep. Better not let that happen again. I might miss something important. About ten minutes later, I fall asleep again. When I came to these three bastards were still.
In the woods. Bastards.
The cycle repeats itself the third time. When I wake up, this time, I say out loud, how are they still in the fucking woods? Several heads turned to me with expressions that I can only assume we're contempt. I sink into the busted ashchair I'm sitting in and stay awake from whatever was left of the movie. I don't remember much about the movie as a whole, but I felt like I got the gist. There was no need to re visit it, as I didn't feel lost through part two. Oh and that little elf dude gets stabbed at the end. Thanks for the great podcast less Speaking of spoilers.
Hey, I've actually never.
Seen this movie. And I appreciated that.
I was like, oh, now I'm gonna watch it an elf get stabbed.
Fuck yeah.
I lost it, as how are they still in the fucking woods?
Like just waking up and being like what how are they selling the fuck? And that they have no survival skills.
It's like the Woods episode. I mean, it's just that thing where you're like, why would you ever go into the forest completely completely?
Oh that was This made me laugh so hard. Thank you Les Less, Sorry, thank you Less.
I also love calling the characters from Harry Potter three bastards a.
Three bastards.
That's what they should have named, like rename, Rename Harry Potter, the entire French three best, these three bastards the amusement park, don't know, pah. I would watch every single one of the twenty movies that came out for that franchise that they called it these three bastards, these these three.
Bastards and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Ah like crying laugh, Oh good, holy shit.
I haven't left that hard and so long, especially if you haven't watched the movie.
I'm just picturing the actors under a banner that just says these three Bastards.
Three Bastards, Like just like, rename all the books, rename the ride a Disney World or whatever the fuck it is, just called three Bastards.
Take you take your kids to Three Bastards at the amusement park. What'd you do this summer? We went to Three Bastards and had some butter beer.
Oh god, I truly am wiping tears from my eyes right, Oh.
My god, completely, I'm like weeping. That's a good one to end on if we have enough.
Yeah, that is truly the best laugh I've had in a long time. And as you know, we laugh constantly on this podcast. So holy shit.
This is why we are so grateful that you write into us. Keep your stories coming, keep your your weird movie experiences, falling asleep in the movies, just anything movie related that you want to tell us. Have you tricked your parents into letting you see them movie that you were absolutely not supposed to be watching at home or in the theater? Definitely, if you've rented back in the day when you were renting movies. Do you have any weird stories about video stores? We just did an episode not too long ago about video stores.
Just send us all your stories.
Also, like again I solicited this on one of the regular episodes in the in the main feed.
But if you worked in.
A movie theater, I would killed to know if you had any weird shit happened, if you were the manager of a movie theater and you had to fire an employee, were sitting in someone's lap during a Star Wars film, if something like if you were sweeping up a movie theater that had just let out and found like a toe or something.
I don't know, just tell us. We want to know. And I swear like these episodes.
But first of all, we thank everybody for so much being a Sister premium subscriber.
It means so much to us.
That you would want to kick it a little extra money to listen to us talk about three bastards. But but they're fun because we can just kind of like read stuff relax if they're very stripped down, which we I know, we appreciate, Danielle and I. But if you want to email us, we're at I.
Saw what you did pod at gmail dot com.
That's right.
What are your thoughts on getting mail through social media?
Like getting some like when people comment the comments or dms no, because I don't want to track that stuff.
Say I don't either.
And that's the thing is, I think people sometimes throw this stuff into a comment or like we'll send us in a DM or do something like that, and we're like, it doesn't count. You got to send it to the email address because we don't really that stuff.
We're so checking the email for your stories.
Because again, also you might post something on social media and not want us to read it on the show, whereas if you send us an email, it's implicitly, you know, understood that we might read it on the show. So I think even legally, we can't just pull from your comments.
Right, So send us an email I saw we need to pot at gmail dot com do not comment.
And I'm kidding, I'm on what you want, we just won't.
Read it, because I will say that somebody on Twitter was like somebody on Twitter like tweeted at me and was like, hey, I thought I sent you guys an email about you know. It was this whole thing where it was like I sent you an email about my movie theater experience and you know you haven't read it. And I'm like, we just started doing this, so let's let's be sensible However, I went to the email or I went to our email and looked for it and it wasn't there. And I'm like, you know what, I bet they commented and.
Does not count count.
Also, we're not going to we get a lot of email. We're not going to read every single email. Yeah, I'm so sorry. And we have no criteria for what makes it on the show, where doesn't make it on the show. It's just whatever hits at.
That moment that we think we want to read.
Yeah, so just you know, keep sending it in or keep you know, just send us different stories.
Try again. We'll get to we'll get to most of these eventually. But we get a lot of email.
We've only got like an hour, so we might not read it. But we're going to try experience the unknown. Experience the unknown. People, I feel like you belong.
Like we needed a cartoon image of you, like floating on a cushion with some kind of halo of light around you and you're doing like the cross legged like a yoga pose, and just experience the unknown.
Maybe that is the ending to White Lotus. Is the listener of our podcast on a pillow floating into the sky.
Surprise me just wrote the ending of your show, Mike White get at us. Oh my god, well this as always a blast.
Daniell love you so much.
Thank you everybody, you too, Thanks for listening y'all.
Bye.
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