Hello, and thank you so much for joining us. Once again, it is the Nightly Pleasures

Podcast. I'm your host and the author of The Repeat that you're going to hear today the gray night

you can call me daddy you can call me jack you can call me what you want just keep on coming back

please even though I don't seem to be wait here I am oh how you doing I okay. I'm at work.

It's been a while since I've gotten to do that one.

Cowboy 2025 is, in fact, going apace.

And one of these days, I'll tell you a little bit more about it.

For right now, I thought that I would

do the overdue story of my birthday because I really had a wonderful one. And it was very unlike

me. It was very unlike birthdays of the past.

And I'm just very happy.

So let's start the story at the beginning.

In January, I watch a movie with The Lady of the Night that I've known for some years

and I'm very close with and I would consider a friend.

We watch movies sometimes, just the two of us.

And I can't remember if she suggested it, or I did, but Anora was floated.

And until I see it on the the best picture nomination list,

I don't have any recollection of Anora.

I don't think anyone brought it up to me.

I don't think I saw it on any lists of movies you need to see. And I delve pretty

deeply by female critics and everything into that list, those kind of lists. For instance,

my favorite movie of 2024 is Love Lys Bleeding, which I had never heard of, like just about everybody

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