Hello,

That's kind of conversation to your soul.

That's conversation to your soul.

I'm the Bessner here, sadly, alone, because Derek is off gallivanting in the North Pole.

But I am very happy to welcome to the podcast today, my friend Justin Boyd. Justin is a screenwriter and TV writer, most recently of Fear of the Walking Dead,

and I invited him to talk about another horror movie from 1999, this time a relationship horror

movie, and that is Stanley Kubrick's eyes wide shut. So Justin, thank you very much for joining me.

Absolutely. And I guess my only question just initially for you is why can't

I also be your friend and comrade? I mean, come on. That is that is very, no, that's very good.

It took Derek like I think almost a year and a half to start referring to me as his comrade.

So I'm very sensitive to this. But no,

and you are also my friend and comrade in the struggle.

The struggle that doesn't seem to be going so well right now.

It's going great.

We're winning.

But it's the holiday season,

and we're going to bring cheer and joy to all of the listeners,

either at home or with family.

And Justin, let's talk about eyes wide shut.

So this is, of course, a movie,

the final of Stanley Kubrick's career, released in the,

what is it, Adam Mirabalus of 1999,

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