Hello you. Welcome to You Are Good, a feelings podcast about movies. Today, we are talking about

jackass. We're talking about it with our great friend, Nico Stratis. I am one of your hosts,

Alex Steed, and my marvelous co-host, Sarah Marshall, is out today on assignment. You are good

as a feelings podcast about movies. Here's what that means. We are not movie critics. We are not

film critics. We are people who watch movies. And we examine what that movie makes us think

about who and how we are in the world. What they make us feel. We'll be critical here

and there, you know, when the situation calls for it. But that's not what we're doing. We're not

here to say, uh, this is bad. This represents this. Well, sometimes we do, but that's not the point. You get,

you get what I was saying. We are a feelings podcast about movies. Jackass, the movie is a 2002

American reality slapstick comedy film. This is according to our friends at wikipedia.org,

directed by Jeff Tremaine. It's a continuation of the MTV television series Jackass, which had completed its run by the time the movie Jackass had come out.

Nico Stratis, my great friend, the writer, the author, the cultural critic.

Nico has written a book called The Dad Rock that made me a woman.

She has a great newsletter called Anxiety Shark.

We have a podcast together called The O.C. again.

15 to 20% of it's about the O.C.

The rest is about, I don't know, it's conversations.

And Niko wrote a great essay called Jackass Made Me the Trans Woman I Am, which originally ran in Bitch Magazine in 2022.

It's now available on Nico's newsletter, Anxiety Shark.

You can find that there.

We have a link to all of that in the show notes.

How are you doing what's going on in your world?

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