So, Birdo just saw a movie called Don't Look Up on Netflix and thought of you.

Texted you, you said you saw it and I said, let's record an episode and talk about it.

What do you say? Let's do it. This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Kirkhan. I'm a therapist and I'm also a professor.

My name is Roberto Castanilla and I pin pins on people.

So, I heard about this movie because there were lots of people talking about it and called

Don't Look Up and it was supposedly a metaphor for climate change and I heard the reviews and I

thought based on what people were saying, I thought it sounded too broad, too goofy and it was

like a missed opportunity. An opportunity to really make our generations, Dr. Strangelove and

Adam McCay just went too far with this like bro comedy. That's basically what I was gathering.

And then one night people kept talking about people kept talking about it.

It's like one night me and Stacey were like, well, let's just watch it and see, you know,

at pretty low expectations. And there were some overtop moments which we'll get into today's

episode. But overall, it resonated with me tremendously because I was watching this thing

and as we build up to the first ending, the second ending was stupid, which we'll also get into.

But the first ending, it was deeply, deeply affecting to me. I mean, for those who listen to

this podcast, you know that I am a, I don't know what to call it, I don't know what sort of per,

that you know, I have a stick up my butt about climate change or something and this,

this movie really touched on that stick. Also, I thought the movie was enjoyable, really funny.

You know, it moves really quick. I mean, Adam McCay is really good at keeping the story moving,

keeping the visuals interesting, sprinkling comedy here and there. You know, really made something

that I thought was just entertaining. Even if you didn't think about its implications to our society,

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