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Hello, and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel Lavery.

I am the aforementioned Danny Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Kyle Turner,

a queer freelance writer based in Brooklyn, New York, heard of it.

He's a contributor to Paste magazine, and is writing on film and culture,

have been featured in the Village Voice, GQ, Slate, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times.

He is relieved to know that he is not a golem. Kyle, I didn't realize that was in question.

Yeah, you know, sometimes you just got a double check that you're not like

a holy rabbinical clay. How did you determine that?

Do you want the real answer or the fake answer?

I didn't even know this was a problem that you had, so I didn't even realize there'd be a

distinction between a real and a fake answer. Can I have both?

Okay, the fake answer is that sometimes I feel parts of myself are just falling off because they've

not been properly killed, if you will. But the real answer is one of the movies that made me

fall in love with film writing was Stranger than Fiction with Will Ferrell and Maggie Gyllenhaal,

and there's a section in the film where Will Ferrell is consulting with a literature professor

played by Dustin Hoffman, and he's trying to figure out what story he is in because he keeps hearing

this narrator, the voice of Emma Thompson in his head, and they do process by elimination and one

of the things that Dustin Hoffman says is, well, you're not a golem, aren't you relieved to know

that you're not a golem? And Will Ferrell, dead pants, yes, I'm relieved to know that I'm not a golem.

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