Josie and the Pussycats w. Rax King and Niko Stratis
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello you. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to You Are Good A Feelings podcast about movies. |
| 0:12.6 | Today we are talking about Josie and the Pussycats. |
| 0:15.1 | We are talking about it with the incomparable. |
| 0:17.4 | Rax King I and one of your hosts today, Alex Steed. I will soon be joined by today's special guest host, Nico Stratus. |
| 0:25.8 | There is, by the way, an extended cut of this very episode available over on Patreon and Apple podcast subscriptions. |
| 0:31.8 | Thanks to everyone who supports us over there. |
| 0:33.8 | You get those bonus episodes. |
| 0:35.8 | You get those extended cuts. |
| 0:54.5 | And you help us make the show possible. You are Good as a Feelings podcast about movies. Here's what that means. We talk about movies with regard to how they make us think about who and how we are in the world. How do they make us feel? Why do they make us feel that way? We are not film critics, though we do speak critically about movies here and there. |
| 0:59.6 | We might not approach these movies in the same way that you approach movies, but we are here to talk about our feelings and to use movies as a means of doing exactly that. |
| 1:05.9 | Justine the Pussycats is a 2001 musical comedy film. It's written by Henry Elfant in Deborah Kaplan. The film is based |
| 1:13.6 | on both the Archie Comics series and the Hannah-Barbera cartoon of the same name. Of course, |
| 1:19.1 | we've got Rachel Lee Cook, we've got Tara Reid, we've got Rosario Dawson, Junie is barking |
| 1:23.9 | in the background. We have Alan Cum coming Parker Posey and many other great folks |
| 1:28.5 | you will surely recognize. Rax King is a writer, of course. One of my favorites out there |
| 1:34.9 | just doing anything. Rax is the best. Author of Taki, which is an essay collection. We referenced |
| 1:41.8 | that in this conversation today. And sloppy, colon, or doing it all wrong, |
| 1:47.6 | another essay collection that came out last year. We love RACs. Love Rax. You'll love Rax if you |
| 1:53.4 | don't love Racked already. But Rax is the best. Our guest host today, Niko Stratus, of course, |
| 1:58.9 | the author of the Dad Rock that made me a woman, author of the newsletter, Anxiety Shark, Nico Stratus, of course, the author of The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman, |
| 2:01.1 | author of the newsletter, Anxiety Shark, my co-host over at the OC again, does so many things, |
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