Hello you. Welcome to You Are Good, a feelings podcast about movies. Today we are talking about the birdcage. We're talking about it with her great friend Mel Blum. I'm one of your host, Alex Steed. My marvelous

co-host, Sarah Marshall, is still out on assignment. What that means is we have the wonderful

Eve Lindley sitting in that co-host seat today. You are good as a feelings podcast about movies.

Here's what that means we We are not film critics.

If you're here for some film criticism, it's probably not what you're going to get.

We're critical sometimes.

But really, what we're here to do is say, what's this movie speak to in us?

What does this movie say about what it is to be alive in the world, to be a human being?

What was it speaking to when it came out? That is the sort of

thing we do here. A lovely listener was like, oh, no, did you have to, do you have to add that

disclaimer because of stuff that people have said about the show? No, I'm just, I'm a believer in

audience service. I'm a believer in saying, here's where we're going, come along, if that's

a thing you want to do with us. Our listeners are actually so lovely in the community department,

in the saying what's in your hearts department. I love to hear from y'all. It's really nice.

I hear from you daily, like literally daily. It's hear from you daily like literally daily it's a very very

sweet thing there's very rarely do i get a shitty comment in one way or another and it's always like

it's always so obvious when you do it's because again i truly a remarkable community can't say

enough good about it but it's so obvious when

you get one of these comments and you're like, oh, you're going through something. I am, you know,

cheaper and more directly accessible than a therapist. And so you're bringing that over here.

But no, truly, I love our community.

And I, yeah, I'm not saying any of this because someone said, what are you doing?

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