The Incomparable, number 70080, August 2025.

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

This episode we're going to return to 1995 once again.

One of our themes this year is going back 30 years to the era of cyberpunk

and and grunge and flannel shirts and all that stuff from the mid 90s, except we have chosen

instead, I have chosen instead, to revisit a very different kind of movie also made in 1995, but it's a

movie that is near and dear to my heart, and I thought it would be kind of fun to talk about

it as a little bit of a change of pace in our 1995 series, because yes, it's been 30 years

since Richard Linklater directed before sunrise in which Ethan Hawk and Julie Delpy meet on a train.

Let me, hey, everybody, before I even introduce the guest, let me recap the plot of before

sunrise.

Ethan Hawk and Julie Delpy meet on a train.

He convinces her to get off in Vienna and walk around with him all

night until the morning when she can get back on a train to Paris and he can go on a flight

back to America and they talk the whole time. And that's before sunrise. Let me thank my

guess for being here. Good bad movie, bad, bad movie. Brian Hamilton is here. Hello. Hello, Jason. I've an admittedly insane idea. I want to keep talking to you. So why don't you get out of this train and we'll do a podcast? Great idea. Erica Ensign is here. Hello. Hi. It's 1995. I'm a little lost though because I'm missing my grunge in my front flannel.

But I do want a milkshake.

At no point does Ethan Hawk hack into the net in this movie.

Just to be clear.

Nobody says I'm in.

Nobody says I'm in not even to a French bartender when you're talking about a glass of a bottle of wine.

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