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That Aged Well

That Aged Well Podcast

Performing Arts, Film Reviews, Arts, Tv & Film

4.8 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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After a brief detour to Ancient Greece, Erika and Paul return to the present (kinda) to kick off Tech Month with Sandra Bullock and The Net! We can all revel in the nostalgia and the hilarity of the technology in this film…but are we prepared for what the film got right? That’s a question that can only be answered by listening to this episode!

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Hosts: Paul Caiola & Erika Villalba
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0:00.0	I was at the supermarket the other day with my dad doing our weekly shop.
0:04.3	Sure.
0:04.7	You know those shopping carts that they have in big supermarkets for kids?
0:08.6	Like that look like a race car?
0:11.4	Oh, yeah, yeah.
0:12.0	Like, so that when you go to your supermarket with a toddler, you can entertain the toddler
0:17.4	and it has like a little vroom, vroom.
0:19.3	Sure, sure.
0:19.7	There was a woman in the aisle next to us with one of these carts and no child.
0:26.0	One other piece of information I need to give you when we walked into the supermarket,
0:30.4	many carts available.
0:31.4	Okay, okay, that was my next question.
0:32.9	There is not a shortage.
0:34.7	She just chose that.
0:36.6	And I was like, well, her kids running around. Sure. And then another like four aisles later, we run into her again. No kid. And the thing here is, Paul, I want to tell you, is what this woman, her vibe. Her general vibe is one of, I am not whimsical. Okay. I am not having fun. This is my shop. This is my, like, Tuesday night, I have to get enough food to last me through Friday so that I can do my fucking job shop. And I was like, seconds away from making fun of her. I was going to like, because my dad had, I think my dad had noticed it. Yeah. And I was going to like elbow my dad and be like, mer, look at that lady with the weird, with the baby cart. What is she doing? And then I stopped myself. You did. We are living in the darkest timeline right now. If this fucking woman needs to use the vroom, Vroom shopping cart just to make her life a little more livable. A hundred percent. This is where I was going. Yes, agreed. Preach. Then who the fuck am I? Let her do what she wants with her goddamn shopping cart. That's right. If she had walked in there with a radio flyer wagon, I would have been like, yes. Yeah. Absolutely. You do that.
1:44.7	Be the Vroom Vroom shopping cart you want to see in the world.
1:46.7	Yes.
2:00.7	Hey, I'm Paul.
2:01.8	And I'm Erica.
2:02.6	And this is That Aged Well.
2:04.8	Yesterday's pop culture today.
2:07.2	Crazy technology month.
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