Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Octavia Bright and since listening back to our last few shows, I've actually decided that we talk about the weather

way too much, Carrie, so I'm not even going to mention it today, but I am going to ask you how

you are, so how are you doing? I'm not bad. I'm really resisting mentioning the weather, but you're

right, we definitely talk about it too much. It's probably a really good strategy also because

these podcasts sometimes get aired weeks

after we record them.

So it literally means nothing when we're talking about the weather.

And most of our listeners are not in southern England.

So yeah, good idea.

But yeah, I'm good.

I went to the cinema for the first time in almost two years over the weekend to see

the new James Bond.

And it was the greatest experience.

It was like the movie was over long and over serious and it was James Bond, you know,

blah, blah, blah, made no sense at certain points.

And I just had the best time.

Like, we got popcorn. I saw these, like, great sweeping landscapes of Italy. There were fight scenes.

There was a big screen. I was in a room with other people reacting to action. It was brilliant.

So I love going to the movies, is how I am.

How are you?

I'm just very, very pleased for you that you had that experience.

I can't wait to see it.

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