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when he gets into the ballet, I think, uh, like I said, like he feels a bit, uh, fish out of water, as does his father, as his father's like fondling the banister in the ballet school just in a way of like, "Oh my God, this is so fancy."

Yeah.

And, you know, he does his audition.

I think this was a very why are dads kind of movie.

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[laughs] Yeah, this whole idea that, uh, it's such a delicious fantasy, um, because not only i- is there this opportunity, not only is this arc one in which he shows himself to his father and his father receives it in a non-resistant way.

It's so funny.

I, um, so I'm a Bravo fan and I didn't fully watch real housewives of Rhode Island, but I did like listen to a bunch of podcasts, recaps about it.

And I didn't really realize like Rhode Island is obviously so small and like I feel like I didn't understand culturally anything about it.

It seems like, oh, quiet, clean, cute little Rhode Island.

So it was just kind of funny to like have a little like dip into Rhode Island because I have no experience.

Totally.

I think when people think Rhode Island, they think when they're not from Rhode Island, they think like Newport, which is where all the fancy houses are.

And there's all these wedding like destination weddings there.

I feel like it has grown stronger over time.

My mom, uh, was a big John Waters... a big fan of kind of the big '80s art house, uh, stuff.

So, like, uh, Natural Born Killers is not the only inappropriate movie I saw in the theater as a child.

You know, I saw, uh, re- a repertory screening of Women on the, of the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown-

Oh, yeah.

What's his

face? Stefano Raquel, right? There was a lot of Family Matters material in that one.

It was a good one.

My youngest had been watching Family Matters.

But he's just as smart.

no i don't think that you don't think so i think that would be different is there not more of a practical use for i think that that was a poor example that you chose yeah because you lack hawking or autistic hawking's intelligence

i mean there wait there's a non-autistic hawking no that's true i mean he was right i presume like he was well because he was already interested in the universe before he couldn't walk that's usually reserved for people that can't walk anymore It's like, oh, I should probably, like, study a thing, like a fantasy thing.

That's this friendship.

It's all the time, all at once.

It's fantastic.

We are here, you guys.

We literally were brainstorming last minute what we should record this podcast about, as we always do, Megan and I.

I mean, they're babies.

They're

infants.

I might workshop-

... let's work that.

Let's workshop that.

Devotee, I might run with that.

Uh, we go hand in hand, 'cause without, without the listener, I'd have no voice.

Mm-hmm.

Just keep that in mind

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I'm going to say, though, the, uh, the daddy of this movie in particular is its representation, uh, fantastical representation of customer service.

You can call a phone number and someone's gonna answer, and they're going to help you understand you're fucked in a way that the way that, um, customer service now is you call robots that pretend that you're not fucked.

Yes.