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You Are Good

The Money Pit w. Sarah Archer

You Are Good

Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed

Film History, Film Reviews, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

"Here lies Walter Fielding. He bought a house, and it killed him." In which we see what's behind these walls, and unpack The Money Pit, with our friend Sarah Archer. Sarah's website can be found here (https://www.sarah-archer.com/). Her Substack can be found here (https://saraharcher.substack.com/). This episode was made possible by your support! Thanks to everybody who supports us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood) and Apple Plus.We LOVE Magpie Cinema Club! You can find their songs / Bandcamp HERE (http://magpiecinemaclub.bandcamp.com/)!You can subscribe to Alex's zine here (https://www.patreon.com/HighOcculture).Merch inspired by our Don't Tell Mom... episode can be found here (https://www.bonfire.com/dont-tel-mom-you-are-good/)!You can buy a You Are Good logo shirt (https://www.bonfire.com/you-are-good-shirts160/) DESIGNED BY THE GREAT LIZ CLIMO here. (Liz Climo designed our logo!)You Are Good (https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good/) is a feelings podcast about movies.You can make a contribution to Palestine Children's Relief Fund here (https://www.pcrf.net/).You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Patreon and Apple Plus.The Music of You Are Good, Vol. 1 is here (https://carolynkendrick.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-you-are-good-vol-1).Miranda Zickler (https://linktr.ee/mirandatheswampmonster) produced and edited this episode!Fresh Lesh produces the beats for our episodes.

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0:00.0

Hello you and welcome to You Are Good A Feelings podcast about movies. Today we are talking about the

0:16.1

money pit we're talking about it with our great friend Sarah Archer I am one of

0:19.7

your hosts Alex Steed and I will soon be joined by my marvelous co-host Sarah Marshall.

0:25.0

If you are new to You Are Good, a Feeling's Podcasts about movies, it's what it sounds like.

0:30.0

We are talking about movies and how they make us think about how we relate to the world, how we relate to each other, how we relate to ourselves.

0:37.5

We are not critics. We might speak critically here and there, but that's not what we're here for. We're here to talk about the movie and what it makes us think about with regard to how we feel, how we relate, etc.

0:49.8

And we have fun while we do it. That's the most important part. We're having fun.

0:53.4

The Money Pit is a 1986 American comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Shelly Long as a couple

0:59.7

who attempt to renovate a recently purchased house and it doesn't go well.

1:03.4

If you were a person of a particular age, you saw this movie on cable or you saw part of this movie

1:07.9

on cable many times.

1:11.6

It was just always on TV for such a long time. One of our favorite genres of film, a movie that used to play on cable when we were children and we have fragments of it memorized but maybe never actually saw the whole thing.

1:27.1

Do you have a movie like that? Do you have movies? What are the movies in your life that are like that? I feel like we all have some of those movies that we

1:34.3

never actually saw in their completion. We saw little bits all the time while flipping

1:38.8

through channels. Sarah Archer is a design and culture writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1:44.0

Her articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic,

1:47.0

Vox, The Cut, etc, etc.

1:49.0

Many places. She's also been on this show, a handful of times. She's been on, you're wrong show a handful of times. She's been on you're wrong about a handful of times.

1:54.4

Sarah Archer is a fan favorite and she is a favorite of ours.

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How are you doing? What's going on in your world? How are you feeling? What are you thinking about? What's what's going on in your world how are you feeling what are you thinking about

2:03.6

what's what's on your mind what are you watching what are you reading what are you

2:07.5

up to let us know what you are good or you are good pod depending on which of the

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