9½ Weeks w. Sam Sanders
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
"How does it feel like to be out of control?" In which we kick off a month of erotic thrillers by enduring 9½ Weeks with the wonderful Sam Sanders.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to You Are Good, a feelings podcast about movies today. |
| 0:15.4 | We are talking about nine and a half weeks. |
| 0:18.7 | We are talking about it with the great Sam Sanders. |
| 0:22.3 | I am one of your hosts, Alex Steed, |
| 0:25.0 | talking to you from a parked car in Ventura, California, |
| 0:29.9 | like a Tom Petty song from the 1980s. |
| 0:33.6 | My wonderful co-host, Sarah Marshall, will be with us momentarily. |
| 0:39.4 | You are Good as a Feelings podcast about movies. |
| 0:41.7 | Here's what that means. |
| 0:42.5 | We watch movies. |
| 0:44.1 | We talk about how what we saw factors in to what it's like to be a human being in these times. |
| 0:52.5 | We say, how does this movie make us feel? |
| 0:54.0 | How does it make us think about |
| 0:55.5 | who and how we are in this world? And that's what we're doing. We're not film critics. Maybe |
| 1:01.8 | we're critical here and there, but really, well, we're pretty critical on this episode, I will say, |
| 1:06.5 | but really, we're talking about what these movies speak to and what it's like to be alive today. |
| 1:15.0 | Oh, by the way, epic content warning for this episode. |
| 1:18.7 | Just everything you could need a content warning for, it happens in this movie and we discuss it. |
| 1:24.6 | We don't typically get into like details in a big way, but a lot comes up in |
| 1:29.1 | this episode. I mean, there's a content warning for suicide, content warning for rape and |
| 1:34.3 | sexual assault, content warning for coercive relationships, content warning for, you know, |
| 1:40.2 | fiction passed off as kind of like a dominant and subplay when really there's other stuff going on. |
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