It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Scott Tobias here with Genevieve Kosky and Tasha Robinson.

Keith Thips is lost in spider web forest, which I think is what he calls his crawl space.

But we're very excited to bring it on a special guest,

David Chen. David does videos, he does podcasts, he does looping cello versions of pop songs,

he hosts the film cast, formerly the slash film cast, and the Tobolowski files, and he also

hosts the culturally relevant podcast. We've been wanting to have him on the show for a long time, and here he is.

Hello, David.

Hello, Scott, and I just want to say, I'm not only a guest co-host of the Next Picture Show podcast.

I'm also a fan.

Wow.

Thank you.

David, given how many podcasts and projects you run, I can't believe that you made time to come here and talk to us, let alone that you have time in your life to listen to other people's podcasts. How do you do it? How do you keep up? Well, I think you should take it as a massive, A, vote of confidence and B, a sense of the stature all of you all hold in my brain. So a big fan of all of your work for many,

many years. And it's quite an honor to be here. Thank you so much. We're like really excited to

have you here, obviously. You know, sometimes we have to stretch a little bit to find a good

pairing option with a movie we want to do. For example, it might have been natural to pair

Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog

with her film The Piano, given all their thematic connections, but we had already paired that

film with Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and so the dueling banjos led us to deliverance instead,

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