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You Are Good

9½ Weeks w. Sam Sanders

You Are Good

Alex Steed

Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Relationships, Film History

4.83K 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.

The Sam Sanders Show:

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1263450739/the-sam-sanders-show

A Streetcar Named Desire trans table read:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-streetcar-named-desire-a-trans-table-read-tickets-1278976786999

Magpie Cinema Club is wonderful!

linktr.ee/magpiecinemaclub

Carolyn's tour:

https://www.carolynkendrick.com/tour

Alex’s zine:

https://www.patreon.com/HighOcculture

Alex's newsletter thing:

https://alexsteed.substack.com/

You can buy a You Are Good logo shirt DESIGNED BY THE GREAT LIZ CLIMO here:

https://www.bonfire.com/you-are-good-shirts160/

You can make a contribution to Palestine Children's Relief Fund here:

https://www.pcrf.net/

Miranda Zickler produced and edited this episode:

https://linktr.ee/mirandatheswampmonster

We appreciate y'all so much!

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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