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Guide to the Unknown

BONUS: SMILE, It's Your Birthday!

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

SPOILERS SMILE had its time, but Will only just saw it, and there was something he NEEDED to share with Kristen. Why isn't anyone talking about this horrible birthday party? So here we are. For full sources and links, visit http://www.gttupod.com/home/gttu270-bonus Support GTTU on Patreon! Depending on the tier you choose, you get one, two, or FOUR full bonus episodes per month, early access to the video version of the show, a private Discord, and more at patreon.com/gttupod. Thank you so much! See everything GTTU-related at gttupod.com. Watch videos of all of our episodes at youtube.com/gttupod Follow us online: https://www.instagram.com/gttupod https://www.facebook.com/gttupod https://www.twitter.com/gttupod Join our private Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/gttupod

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0:00.0

This is the worst birthday party anyone has ever had.

0:07.6

You didn't see the movie smile, did you?

0:11.6

No. You didn't see the movie smile, did you?

0:14.0

No, I was like semi-interested and then I saw the discourse online talking about how it was like actually a very interesting exploration of grief or something

0:25.7

and I was like I'm good.

0:27.4

Yeah I'm fine I don't need to have a different means of exploring grief again thank you

0:32.2

got it I want to talk to you about something that happens in the movie

0:35.2

Smile. Yeah. That sort of blew my mind. Yeah. I did read spoilers for it. So I had been interested.

0:41.1

I heard that. I was like I'm not going to see it so I read the Wikipedia plot but I don't really remember it.

0:46.0

I don't think Wikipedia could do the experience of watching this justice.

0:51.0

Yeah. I'm Will by the way. Yep, I'm Kristen. We're from, by the way.

0:52.8

Yep, I'm Kristen.

0:54.0

We're from Guide to the Unknown, the Podcast.

0:56.3

Spoilers for Smile.

0:58.0

Here's all I want to tell you.

0:59.5

All right?

1:00.4

So it's essentially the ring plus it follows, there's a curse that's going to follow you

1:06.2

It passes from person to person to person to person and our protagonist gets the curse and so she's sort of trying to trace it back and in that way it's kind of also like the

1:14.2

ring where Naomi Watts is trying to get to the bottom of this curse.

1:18.4

Bottom of the well. Bottom of the well. We only get sort of shorthand about who this person was before she was cursed and everything gets topsy-turvy but she's the kind of person who's like I guess quirky

1:28.8

She's a nurse she has a cat named mustache. Okay.

1:33.0

You know what I mean?

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