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You Are Good

Kiki's Delivery Service w. Livia Tsang

You Are Good

Alex Steed

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

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

"You'd think they'd never seen a girl and a cat on a broom before." In which we talk burnout, inspiration and Kiki's Delivery Service with the great Livia Tsang!

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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

0:15.2

about Kiki's delivery service and we're talking about it with my great friend, Libbya, saying, I am your host, Alex Steed.

0:23.2

So happy that you're here to talk about movies and feelings with us. You are good as a

0:28.4

feelings podcast about movies. So it's exactly what it sounds like. This is a show where we watch

0:32.5

movies and we talk about how they make us feel about who and how we are in the world. This one is feelings packed, so buckle up.

0:40.1

We are not film critics.

0:41.2

We're not here to say this was good or this was bad, though.

0:43.1

This is very good.

0:44.9

This is great.

0:47.2

We're here to excavate the feelings of it all, let's say.

0:53.8

Kiki's delivery service is a 1989 Japanese animated

0:57.0

fantasy film written, produced, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is animated by Studio Ghibli,

1:05.2

which I'm so sorry I referred to at least once as Studio Ghibli in this chat and, you know, consider me repenting right now.

1:13.4

The story follows Kiki, a young witch who moves to the port city of Carrico with her cat, Gigi,

1:22.0

and starts a flying courier service. We watch the English dub, I should say, which was produced in 1997.

1:30.9

Livia is saying is a great friend who's based in Toronto, as a visual artist, as a tattooer.

1:34.9

And we've been friends from the internet for quite a while now. We're friends via the show now.

1:40.3

And I was supposed to see Olivia, and supposed to see see the new Ghibli film with them when I was in

1:46.0

Toronto last, but I ended up getting a little sick on one of the days and did not end up seeing

1:52.0

Libya. And so that's a bummer. Got to get back to Toronto. Got to get back to Toronto and

1:58.5

hang with Libya. But check out Libya's art. Check out Libya's work.

2:02.3

Get tattooed by Libya. Really just phenomenal, talented person. How are you doing? What's going

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