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Still Buffering

Still Buffering: Lost in Translation (2003)

Still Buffering

Sydnee McElroy

Comedy

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

For a relaxing time, make it Still Buffering time. This week on the show, we're looking back on Lost in Translation. Is it a beautiful meditation on loneliness, and a vivid love letter to Japan? Yes. But does it hold up under the modern microscope? Let's discuss.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Maybe you change your mind.

0:03.0

One too many times over and over again.

0:22.4

Over and over again.

0:25.6

Baby you change your mind.

0:27.6

Oh, too many times.

0:29.6

Over and over again.

0:31.6

Over and over again.

0:36.6

Hello and welcome to Still Buffering and a cross-generational guide to the culture that made us.

0:37.6

I'm Sidney McRoy. And I'm Taylor Smurrow. Hey, I was at a Renfair all weekend. Very jealous. Very jealous of that. Yeah, it was, it was such a fun event. It really was. What a wonderful group of people you find at Renaissance fairs, you I love a Renfair I love that I also

0:56.6

here's what I love about renfares the first time I went to one I was like

0:59.4

Googling like period appropriate like when we say

1:02.9

renaissance what kind of skirt am I supposed to wear like you know

1:06.8

like I don't know I'm not a fashion historian

1:09.7

and so I was trying to like be real like well I don't

1:12.3

want people to give me a side eye you know like I better fit in and then you go to a renaissance

1:18.6

fair and nobody cares no there will always be like I mean well because there's always a time traveler type vibe right because you've got

1:30.4

steampunk booths usually set up I know with the one I go to there's always a time travelers

1:35.3

weekend so specifically that invites anybody there's always some doctor who's there always

1:41.0

some some links in Zelda's yeah uh Johnny De Depp. Well, not Johnny Depp. Captain Jack Sparrow. Lots of pirates. Pirates are big at Renfares. Yeah. You can be a pirate at the Renfair. Yeah. I mean, obviously there's lots of knights and, you know, lords and ladies, queens and princesses and all that sort of jazz. there are a lot of little kids in just straight up Halloween costumes.

2:04.2

Oh yeah.

2:03.6

And that's great. and ladies, queens and princesses and all that sort of jazz. There are a lot of little kids in just straight up Halloween costumes.

2:04.2

Oh yeah.

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