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That Aged Well

That Aged Well Podcast

Performing Arts, Film Reviews, Arts, Tv & Film

4.8 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Superhero Month flies on as Erika and Paul move from heroic ninja turtles to heroic ninja vampires! That Aged Well takes on 1998’s Blade, starring Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson (??!!), Stephen Dorff, and N’Bushe Wright as the undersung Dr. Karen Jenson! Look, is this a movie that always makes the most sense? No. But is it a grand guignol that will no doubt delight one host and gross out the other. It sure is!

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Hosts: Paul Caiola & Erika Villalba
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0:00.0	Picture it.
0:01.6	Okay.
0:02.5	Broadway theater.
0:04.0	We're sitting like in mid-mezzanine and this pair of women walks in and one of the women is using a walking stick, which is fine.
0:13.4	Until I explain to you that the walking stick that I'm referring to is not a cane, it is more like a staff.
0:20.7	Ah! Like a wizard's staff. Gandalf staff. Again, exactly, Erica, a Gandalf staff. So now I'm like, well, that's, that's large. Can I ask a follow-up question? Please. How is she dressed? Like a lesbian from Vermont. Oh.
0:38.0	Yeah.
0:38.4	Okay.
0:38.9	Yeah.
0:39.7	Uh-huh.
0:40.3	Okay.
0:42.2	Like a woodsy lesbian from Vermont?
0:42.7	Okay. Okay.
0:42.7	And would you say the Gandalf's staff was like,
0:46.6	woodsy also?
0:47.6	Could it be something she made herself?
0:49.6	Interesting question.
0:50.9	I'm going to put a pin in it because that's going to answer itself in a minute.
0:55.5	She's walking in and my eye is drawn to the staff. I'm like, can she cast spells? Am I looking at a druidess? What's happening? She sits down her seat. She's trying to maneuver the staff. So it's not poking anyone or in anyone else's space, which is obviously impossible because it's like five feet long.
1:12.9	John Hamm has had this of exact same experience.
1:14.8	It's not his fault.
1:16.4	And because of all the movement, I can see another thing that's on the staff, which is a price tag.
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