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You Are Good

Hackers w. Ryan Keely

You Are Good

Alex Steed

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

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

"Hacking is more than just a crime. It's a survival trait." In which we Hack the Planet! and talk electronic music, 90s fashion, and Hackers with the wonderful Ryan Keely.

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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 about hackers.

0:16.0

We're talking about it with my good friend, Ryan Keely. I'm your host for this episode.

0:21.8

Alex Steed, welcome to You Are Good.

0:24.4

Hey, just a super quick note, I fucked up and didn't have the cord I needed to record this episode.

0:30.8

And so I'm not using my microphone.

0:32.5

I'm using my telephone.

0:34.4

And it doesn't sound the best.

0:36.7

It is listenable. It is just fine, but it is not how it

0:42.0

normally sounds. And I just want you to know that I know that. And that's knowledge we both share.

0:50.2

So just super quick heads up. That's what's going on.

0:54.0

You are good at Feelings Podcasts about movies is exactly what it sounds like.

0:56.9

This is a show where we talk about movies and how they make us feel, how they make us think about who and how we are in the world.

1:04.2

We are not film critics.

1:05.5

That's not what we're setting out to do.

1:06.8

Though we do speak critically about some of the movies we talk about, we're really just here to say what this means to us and what it makes us think about with regard to why it means something

1:17.5

to us. Simple, easy. That's what we're doing here. Hackers is a 1995 crime thriller film. I never

1:24.6

think about that. That's a crime thriller. In talking about the movie,

1:29.0

we're immediately like, plot doesn't matter if this movie is about vibes. So that should not surprise

1:33.0

you that I don't think about it. It should maybe surprise you considering I've seen this movie as many

1:37.0

times as I have, but it's fine. The film follows a group of high school hackers and their

1:42.3

involvement in an attempted theft. It was made in the mid-1990s, of course, and so a lot of high school hackers and their involvement in an attempted theft.

1:44.9

It was made in the mid-1990s, of course, and so a lot of the things and the concepts

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