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There's always something that, you know, restores my faith a little bit and just in a way to come full circle the responses to that 25 best film list even though, you know, there was a lot of hostility and pushback and

kind of fault finding.

There was also more striking was like everybody wanted to kind of get into the game and get into

the conversation and there was a lot that I thought was really constructive and beautiful

about it because I think everyone or not everyone but a lot of people

started out acknowledging well of course as you say this is imperfect this is you know we here

are two human beings doing something that's that's on its face ridiculous.

Like, we're going to list the 25,

our 25 favorite or the 25 best movies of centuries so far.

I mean, that's an absurd thing to do.

If you accept that that's absurd, then you can actually find something kind of fun

and constructive and interesting to do with it. And a lot of that happened.

That was Aio Scott. I'm going to In 50 years of life, life Aio Scott has been and is many things.

A Harvard graduate, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and criticism, an assistant to the late

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