Hello and welcome to Sentimental Garbage, the podcast where we communicate largely via

finger clicks. My name is Caroline and my grandpa is a commie and my grandma pushes tea.

And joining me is the girl who always feels pretty. It's Jensen McRae. Thank you for that introduction. Thank you so much for coming on.

And this is very embarrassing for a pop culture podcaster, introducing me to this film.

Well, I'm happy to be anyone's introduction to it. It was like, it dominated my childhood in a way that

I look back and I don't really understand why. Yeah, I mean, we're about to get to the bottom

of why. So when I, we were communicated over DM and Instagram and I'm just, I just think

you're so fabulously talented and I love your music. And when you wanted to come on the show,

I was so happy to have you

and then you came with West Side Story immediately like it was an immediate text back and I and I yeah

would love to know why exactly I mean I know that when I was a kid like your parents are always showing

you movies that they loved when they were younger like Like, I remember my mom showed me dirty dancing.

That was, like, her favorite movie.

And I just remember finding it, like, intolerably long.

I wish I knew, like, the runtime of that film, because I'm sure it's a normal length of a movie.

But as a child, I felt it was so long because it didn't really capture my interest. about being in love with Patrick Swayze. And she must have shown me one side story.

And for some reason, I was like, this is a perfect film.

And now I'm going to, I literally watched it every single day for like, I think, all of fourth grade.

And like we went on a family trip to Jamaica.

And this was in the mid-2000s when you had to have a DVD player.

Like there weren't like iPads or anything. Like, you didn't, there was no other way to watch a movie on a plane.

So we all brought big DVD players.

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