Abandonment Fears and Home Alone w. Anne Thériault
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Join Sarah, Alex and guest Anne Thériault as they discuss abandonment issues and anxieties about the horror of the 'urban' being unleashed upon the suburbs and threatening THE CHILDREN. This week's movie, of course, is Home Alone.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:07.0 | Alex Steed. |
| 0:12.0 | Merry Christmas! |
| 0:14.0 | Merry Christmas to you! |
| 0:16.0 | We are going to talk about Home Alone with our friend Ann Terrio. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:22.0 | I am too. This was a fantastic conversation what's your one or two or maybe even three line pitch |
| 0:27.8 | About what home alone is about. Ooh home alone is about a little boy who wishes for his family to disappear and then it happens and he has to deal with that. |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah, I think that that's exactly right on. I don't want to give away anything we've talked about to this point, but what were some of your favorite courts of this conversation? What are you most excited for people to hear about? |
| 0:51.0 | I am excited for people to just hear us. hear about how much we all love Catherine O'Hara and also me get schooled for |
| 0:59.6 | schooled for saying that no one knew who Catherine O'Hara was in 1990, which really just means that I didn't because I was two. |
| 1:07.0 | That's forgivable. Other than other things that you've heard in your life, it's okay to be a child. That's true that's the theme of this |
| 1:14.4 | show yeah and I am happy to know that Catherine O'Hara has been like part of the American |
| 1:20.0 | zeitgeist for much longer than I appreciated. |
| 1:22.8 | Imagine what it would be like without her. |
| 1:25.4 | Even worse, so that's not even worth contemplating. |
| 1:29.2 | And I'm excited for people to hear Anne, |
| 1:31.9 | who I think was really lovely and we all talked about our families and our Christmas feelings and our feelings about our protagonist in this movie, Kevin McAllister. our eating macaroni and cheese and milk out of a wine glass or at least I will. |
| 1:55.6 | People will hear this conversation about who knew about Catherine O'Hara when. |
| 2:00.0 | It's so interesting that you say you didn't know about her because you were two. |
| 2:04.0 | And I realize how specific a situation it is that I was a seven year old who knew |
| 2:10.1 | about who Catherine or Hera was. And maybe that is not representative |
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