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Mini Water Cooler: The Suicide Squad, Free Guy, The Last Letter From Your Lover, The Jinx, Boyz n the Hood, and More

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🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On the August 3, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by news editor Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler.  Opening Banter:  At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing:Hoai-Tran went to the Met, recently recorded an episode of Trekking Through Time and Space with Paul Scheer, has been doing other stuff too, probably. Ben has been slowly building shelves for a library. What we’ve been Reading:Ben read The Count of Monte Cristo. Hoai-Tran read Half-Sick of Shadows, is reading The Committed, but wants to talk about Mexican Gothic. What we’ve been Watching:HT and Ben watched Never Have I Ever season 2 and I Think You Should Leave. Ben watched Boyz n the Hood and The Last Letter From Your Lover. Hoai-Tran watched The Green Knight, The Suicide Squad, Snake Eyes, Stillwater, Free Guy, Starstruck, finally started watching Warrior, Evil, and um, The Jinx. What we’ve been Eating:  What we’ve been Playing:    Also mentioned:      All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.  You can subscribe to /Film Daily on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS).  Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts, tell your friends and spread the word!  Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello everyone welcome to slash film daily for Tuesday August 3rd 2021 on today's episode

0:04.7

of the show we're going to have a mini water cooler episode and talking about what we've been up to.

0:08.7

My name is Ben Pearson I'm a senior writer at slash film dot com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film news editor

0:15.3

by Chambuoy.

0:16.4

Hey everyone.

0:17.7

H.C. it's just you and me.

0:20.0

I understand that we've received a lot of emails

0:22.3

asking what's going on with the water cooler as we've laid out previously on this podcast

0:27.9

Slash film is in the middle of a big change right now. We're working on a redesign of the site. We have new writers and stuff that we're

0:33.7

being that we're working with now. There's a lot going on behind the scene so we have

0:37.9

not had time to get the entire crew together to do a traditional water cooler

0:41.6

episode. So we're going to experiment with some instances

0:45.2

where we just bring two or maybe three people on

0:48.4

and do sort of mini water coolers

0:49.8

and just catch up on what we've been doing because I know that the listeners like to like to hear about that stuff and I like to hear about it too so

0:57.6

Let's do that. Let's dive in a she what have you been doing recently? Well, it's been about more than a month I think since

1:04.6

our last water coolers have been doing quite a bit, most of which I don't remember.

1:08.6

Yeah same I'm right there with you. But this past weekend I went to the Met which was really cool. I went to a museum

1:18.0

experienced art. I was particularly because there was an exhibit there that I'm going to look up now because I can't

1:24.3

remember exactly who it was.

1:25.8

Yes, Alice Neal, people come first.

1:28.8

It was an exhibit that was closing this past weekend and so my roommate and I decided to go and check it out.

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