Hello, people of earth. It is me, Paul Shear, and before we get into today's matinee, Shadow

in the Cloud, I wanted to share some devastating news with you. Last Thursday, after a year

and a half long battle with breast cancer, we lost our super producer, Averallie.

She was not in pain. She was surrounded by her friends and her family. And since we shared this

news on social media, I have been completely and utterly blown away by the absolutely

lovely outpouring of love and condolences that you all have given to her, her friends,

and her family. I've been talking to different members of her friends and family over these last couple of

days.

And I'm just in awe that you all recognize what Aero brought to this show.

I'm not good at this.

I wish I was someone who could just sit down and speak so eloquently from the heart, but I know that it will be choppy.

And I just want you to go with me here as I try to just celebrate this remarkable, singularly wonderful person who was such a part of this show,

a part that you didn't quite ever hear, as a matter of fact.

And I think that's what makes it even more interesting,

that the reaction to her was so sincere and so connected because she is the fabric of the show. Back in 2013, we had

been doing this podcast for a handful of years, and we kept on coming up on this impasse,

which was, yeah, that was a bad movie, but it wasn't fun to watch. It felt like a slog. And we had this

idea. Why don't we reach out to our listeners and see if anyone would want to help us find bad

movies? So we got all these submissions in. And I remember Averill's because she was not only a bad movie aficionado, but she was this

hilarious editor. She had made these incredibly funny pieces for like MTV films. When she sent

me her resume, it just jumped off the page. She had this kind of quirky, fun sensibility. And when we first

zoomed, and I don't even think there was Zoom back then, I think when we first FaceTimed, I was just

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