The Mummy [1999] w. Neeraja Viswanathan
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
We dream about dead guys, and all the daddies in The Mummy [1999], with Neeraja Viswanathan.
You can find Neeraja on Twitter here, and you can find Neeraja's writing on mystery movies here.
We made a playlist to accompany this episode! It's comprised of songs that come to mind when we all think about this movie.
You Are Good is a show in which hosts Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed attempt to understand what the hell it means to be the grown children of dads and other dad-like figures. And, as they do with all difficult subject matter, they do so by looking through a pop culture lens.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to You Are Good, everybody. We're doing the thing. We're talking about the feelings |
| 0:10.9 | and movies. Yeah. We're using the movies as a recipe for feelings. We're like, it calls |
| 0:16.4 | for this much grief and this much exuberance and this many dad jokes. Just sprinkle it |
| 0:22.3 | on freely. Yes. And we're doing our summer stretch, which brings us to what movie right |
| 0:28.0 | now, Sarah. Oh, we're talking about the mummy, which is one of the summeriest movies ever |
| 0:32.9 | to some summer, summer, summer, you found it the drive through and down at the drive. And |
| 0:40.9 | who, who were we joined by and how did this, how did this all happen? Like what are the, |
| 0:44.9 | what are people getting involved in right now? We are joined by my friend, Neroja, who's |
| 0:49.5 | one of my dearest friends and one of the people I know who most deeply loves cinema. And |
| 0:57.3 | we talked about the mummy, which is a frequently requested movie because people really love |
| 1:01.4 | it. And we talked about the fact that it is a movie that it is very easy to love and |
| 1:06.2 | that we all individually love and that it's like very racist and like why is it possible |
| 1:12.8 | to enjoy it so much? Yeah. Yeah. We did talk about that. What stood out to you in this |
| 1:17.6 | chat about the mummy? Well, first of all, that like Neroja clearly needs to have just |
| 1:24.6 | a show about cinema and some capacity or like a chance to talk about films more often. |
| 1:31.6 | You just put a quarter in her and she's just too blessed to be stressed. She just goes |
| 1:37.0 | straight for it. She's like ready to be asked about the mummy and about the literature |
| 1:43.2 | of colonialism and about Agatha Christie and kind of tropes of 1930s movies. I mean, this |
| 1:51.8 | felt in like the best way possible. I say this is someone who like stayed in school until |
| 1:56.8 | I was 28. This feels like a wonderful like summer film class. So I hope that you people |
| 2:04.7 | enjoy it in that vein. And also in other ways, because we also talk about how horny we |
| 2:09.6 | are for all the characters. One of the things that like I think, especially for first time |
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