Welcome, episode two of Stories That Stick. We're doing it. The first episode hasn't imploded. I think we're doing okay.

Hey, your host, Chad, here. Just want to give you a little bit of lead-in to before we start the episode with Kayla, who is amazing.

If you haven't heard Kayla before, she's on an old episode of Goosebuds where we covered Animorphs.

Fantastic book of Animorphs. Please go back and listen to that. We vaguely talk about it. Kayla picked a really weird one. I somehow had never heard of this M. Night Shyamalan documentary. Not a documentary. It's just a puff piece. It's crazy. I do like these found footage type things. I feel like I'm a little hard on this movie,

but also this movie is hot garbage.

I'm torn.

It was really cool of Kayla to pick this thing

and like kind of analyze why it would have gotten

particularly spooky in 2004,

discovering it late night on a television

without the internet immediately telling you

the truth

of what it is.

Kayla, if you're listening to this, thank you again for coming on. I hope I didn't dunk on it

too much, but it's insane. I think it's a really interesting, like, look into the microcosm

of M. Night Shyamalan, a guy who I think at one point was the height of like,

this is the new creative force of horror and mystery, and then just kind of kept like digging

himself into more and more creative holes in terms of what the audience expected. And yeah,

I think we talked about this a little bit, but it really felt like once he got known for like this twist and this concept stuff, he kind of got like trapped in, well, I couldn't just tell a story about a couple going through a tough time.

Maybe he also just doesn't want to tell those stories.

But you can really feel across this guy's entire filmography like a struggle or something.

Either a struggle or a complete lack of understanding.

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