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You Are Good

Boogie Nights w. Nona Willis-Aronowitz

You Are Good

Alex Steed

Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Relationships, Film History

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We have good things you don't know about! Join us as we devour Boogie Nights—the Goodfellas of the 1970s Valley porn scene—along with the spectacular Nona Willis-Aronowitz.

You can Nona online here!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello you, welcome to you are good, a feelings podcast about movies, today we are talking

0:14.7

about Boogie Nights with Nona Willis Aranoids.

0:19.2

I am one of your hosts Alex Steed, I will soon be joined by my tremendous co-host Sarah

0:25.5

Marshall.

0:27.0

Boogie Nights of course is a 1997 American period comedy drama film written and directed

0:33.8

by Paul Thomas Anderson.

0:35.8

It is set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher

0:41.5

who becomes a popular star of pornographic films chronicling his rise in the golden

0:47.0

age of porn of the 1970s through his fall during the accesses of the 1980s.

0:54.0

Did I read this description straight from Wikipedia, you bet I did.

0:59.5

Our guest again is Nona Willis Aranoids, the author of Bad Sex, Truth Pleasure and

1:05.5

An Unfinished Revolution.

1:07.6

Nona joined Sarah on your wrong about a handful of months ago to talk about porn.

1:14.0

And so in a way, we are continuing that conversation here, go check out that episode if you have

1:20.0

not heard it already, it is great.

1:24.2

You can support you are good feelings podcast about movies by checking us out on Patreon

1:30.4

or subscribing via Apple subscriptions.

1:34.0

If you do that, you get bonus episodes in December.

1:37.9

Our bonus episode is going to be about mixed nuts.

1:41.4

Thank you so much to everyone who does support us on Patreon and Apple subscriptions.

1:45.6

It really helps a lot.

1:46.7

It makes the show possible.

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