0:01

Eight. What

0:04

a what a what a welcome back

0:06

to us?

0:07

did you miss us in case you forgot? Who

0:09

we are? I'm Princess Weeks. And

0:11

I am Cincinnati. And you

0:13

are back and listening to of course,

0:15

vague geek podcast. You're one

0:17

stop shop for phantom combos,

0:20

pop culture, media, all nerd

0:22

geek things. Each week, we're gonna

0:25

skim

0:25

the surface of what popular and geek culture,

0:28

then deep dive into the lore of a Netflix

0:30

world that is bigger than our own.

0:32

Today and night, we're gonna delve

0:34

into the animated mind of

0:36

kid Cuddy himself with his new

0:38

romantic film, Intergala.

0:41

gas. I am pumped to

0:43

talk about this one because don't

0:46

know. I think this might have turned me into

0:48

a kid cutting and perhaps

0:50

Hell yeah. was so excited to talk to you about

0:52

this. But before we get into it today,

0:54

Tessa, tell me I'm dining out. I've missed you

0:56

so much. What's

0:57

got you kicked this week? Blended

1:00

earlier. Oh,

1:05

man. So many things. Well,

1:07

I'm just first of all geeked to

1:09

be back. So Yeah.

1:12

So good to be back. Mhmm. It was

1:14

nice to have a little break sometimes, but there's

1:16

so much that is happening in the

1:18

fall. The fall is now. The time

1:20

is now. So -- The pumpkins

1:23

are up. -- you know? It's great. It's it's

1:25

time for us both to step into

1:27

our most powerful forms and

1:31

talk about some of the best

1:34

movies and shows that I've been looking forward

1:36

to the most, like,

1:38

this whole year. It's like I've been waiting

1:40

and waiting and waiting and now It's

1:42

finally time. Wednesday, we

1:45

got some sneak peeks. We

1:48

got, like, they're freaking cute

1:50

ass uniforms that I'm obsessed

1:52

with. The students have never more academy.

1:55

I love a good uniform. It

1:57

looks like beetlejuice meets,

1:59

Ravenclaw

1:59

meets, like, I don't know, just give

2:02

me all of the magical

2:04

school vibes, and also,

2:07

like, glass onion, the sneak

2:09

peek. We got to see, like,

2:11

the invitation in

2:13

the form of a puzzle box that it was

2:15

so cool. Oh, good. I

2:18

just know that that movie is going

2:20

to be, like, one of the best things I've

2:22

ever seen. So I am just it makes

2:24

me wanna do an escape room so badly.

2:26

I need Ryan Johnson to create

2:28

an escape

2:29

room. Oh my god. That would be so chaotic

2:31

I would go. Right? Hands down.

2:33

So that's what's got me the most

2:35

geeked. What about you, Princess? Honestly,

2:38

what's got me the most geeked. So I've suddenly

2:40

got into, like, legal drama

2:43

shows. I just love watching them, like and

2:46

on Netflix right now, there's partner track

2:48

with Arden Show in it, who was

2:50

on Teen Wolf. and it has just been

2:52

so fun to watch. It's like

2:54

my after I, like, have a long

2:56

day. I'm like, I wanna unpack. Let me watch this

2:58

successful female lawyer.

3:01

problem with complicated moral issues while

3:03

also flirting with two guys. I think

3:05

she could be better than. But the

3:09

class. But what else is new? Mhmm.

3:12

That's been really cool. And also, part

3:14

of the the announcements was the release of

3:16

the cast. for Avatar less air venues.

3:19

And they got the actress

3:21

from Prey to

3:24

B Princess Ewe. And

3:26

I'm just sitting here like, well, I've already

3:28

loved that character. This is iconic casting.

3:31

And Despite, like, a few,

3:33

like nitpick stuff, I am glad

3:35

that the entire class of that show

3:38

ended up being Asian as promised, so

3:40

that makes me really excited to see what

3:42

they do with everything. So I'm looking forward to

3:44

seeing where it goes. Oh, oh my goodness.

3:46

And I love Avatar. So it's like, I feel

3:48

like every time something new Avatar unit

3:51

comes out, I'm just like, Here I am

3:53

back at being fourteen again back

3:55

in the tutorial wars, tied

3:57

to battle. But I'm

3:58

looking forward to

4:00

all of it. That's one battle that

4:02

I would stand beside you. I was also

4:04

a person. We would be fully united,

4:07

but that's on that front,

4:09

we would and United because

4:11

that is something that I do get still

4:13

get into arguments with my friends about

4:15

I have a friend that is obsessed with

4:18

ang in Qatar and I just cannot

4:20

understand the logic. My my girlfriend

4:22

also ships cat egg. It's one of those things. Like,

4:24

you see how I can go across the It's like,

4:26

you know, you see how I saw this. It's

4:28

so brave. I know. Whenever

4:31

we shoot something that's different, it's always just like,

4:33

we're so brave, making it work with all these.

4:35

All these cool.

4:37

surfers or surfers. surfers. Wow.

4:39

It's power. The power of our

4:41

surfers. I

4:44

love it. That's amazing. obsessed.

4:48

Can't wait.

4:49

Bring on the fall. But speaking

4:51

of fall and cuffing season, we

4:53

have a nice romantic animated

4:56

film to talk about Doherty. Oh,

4:58

yes. We definitely do. Well, let's

5:00

talk about it now.

5:03

So today, we are going to

5:05

be talking about kid

5:07

Cuddy's

5:07

new television special,

5:10

which was so surprisingly

5:13

sweet and kind, and thoughtful,

5:16

and well acted, and I

5:18

was really, really into it.

5:20

What about you, Tessa? I know you didn't know who Kid

5:22

Cuddy was,

5:23

before. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry to

5:26

all of the kid cutty fans. I'm

5:28

just a really big musical theater

5:30

dork that listens to really

5:33

basic pop radio, so I

5:35

did not know. I'm the wettest

5:37

person alive, so I I did not know.

5:39

But I

5:42

absolutely loved this. I thought

5:44

that this was such

5:46

a cool and great idea

5:48

to, like, promote an upcoming

5:51

album, and also not even promote

5:53

to create this whole experience for

5:55

someone to, like, to listen.

5:57

Because when I'm listening to

5:59

an album, I don't like to listen

6:01

all the way through usually. I'll just, like --

6:03

Mhmm. -- oh, I'll hear a song here. And then

6:05

if I like it. I'll hear another, like,

6:08

single here or my friend, I'll recommend

6:10

a song here. So I don't,

6:12

like, listen through a full album normally.

6:14

Unless, it's a musical

6:17

theater album because I need

6:19

a story babies, so this

6:21

gave me a story and I'm like,

6:23

this is cool. This is really

6:25

a great idea. It's revolutionary. And,

6:28

you know, get that Emmy.

6:30

I agree. I think it's a good I mean, what if he

6:32

he'd

6:32

be like, two parts of what he got. because

6:34

I know he's won two grand news. Mhmm.

6:36

Deserved it. Get

6:38

it. I'm so excited because for

6:40

those who also may not know. So kid Cuddy

6:43

is in he's a rapper singer songwriter

6:45

producer, actor, and

6:47

he's really been a very

6:49

popular alt rapper Most

6:51

people got into him in two

6:53

thousand and eight with his debut single day

6:55

and night, which was self published on

6:57

his MICE based page legendaries,

7:00

iconic, you know, back when you could

7:02

do that with Workspace, larger careers.

7:04

Take that SoundCloud. And

7:07

since then, he's gone on to

7:09

produce and work with many big artists

7:11

across a lot of different genres, including

7:13

Michael Bolton. So he even has its for

7:15

your mom, And this is, like, the first thing

7:17

I've seen in minute and a while. Like, I know he's done

7:19

some small appearances and stuff because I know

7:21

he was in, like, the Bill and Ted movie and don't look

7:23

up. But this was definitely

7:25

very different from what I thought he

7:28

would do

7:28

for something like this. Oh my god.

7:31

It was like an his own immersive

7:33

world come to life, and it was sort

7:35

of blending like, oh,

7:37

animation and reality. The

7:39

people that are voicing the characters

7:41

kinda look like the characters too, which is

7:43

like interesting. And

7:46

I I don't know. To me, this is like

7:48

seriously pushing the boundaries and like

7:50

raising the bar when it comes to like

7:52

storytelling and I don't know if

7:54

this is like kind of stupid of me, but

7:56

I didn't realize how well,

7:59

like, music

7:59

and animation can go hand in hand.

8:02

Like, it's obvious now and I think about

8:04

it especially, like, some of my favorite

8:06

animated things are because, like,

8:09

the music has was so involved in

8:11

it, like spider verse. Mhmm. But it's

8:13

like they elevated each other so

8:15

beautifully. It was almost like I was watching

8:17

like choreography or something because it

8:19

was so interwoven. I fucking

8:21

loved it. It was amazing. It's just so

8:24

well detailed and beautiful. And I thought

8:26

about how much I wish that something

8:28

like Beyonce's lemonade would've got something

8:30

like this because that's something I was like, oh, that

8:32

would look so good animated, like

8:34

or, like, chromatic. You know, I just think

8:36

about, like, it's so fun. to

8:39

blend like those images together and

8:41

tell the narrative story of

8:43

your album of

8:45

your work with an

8:45

animated form. And I

8:48

think it was just really thoughtful. And I've

8:50

also just I don't

8:51

think since, like, baby

8:53

kids or maybe even

8:56

spider verse. Have I seen like such a roster

8:58

of animated stuff with so many black

9:00

actors on it in like a while. So it's just

9:02

really fun to see all these people have

9:05

an opportunity to play

9:07

this. And I also love the idea of,

9:09

like, So,

9:10

kid Cuddy, his character's name is

9:12

Jabari. He has two really close friends,

9:14

and one of them is voiced by Timothy

9:16

Charlemagne. So, the idea of

9:18

Timothy Charlemagne, it and Cuddy like hanging

9:20

out was very funny to

9:22

me. I could not take that. It was

9:24

Timothy Charlemagne because all I could think

9:26

about is him being like a fucking

9:28

blood finger linked potato is

9:30

filled with that. because, like,

9:32

he he was doing that same type of vibe that

9:34

he was doing in that movie and it just

9:36

made me laugh hard because I was like,

9:38

oh, god. Here comes the fucking growing

9:40

potatoes. But, yeah, it

9:42

the casting was super unexpected. But

9:44

Brilliant. I was like, wow. This

9:47

is really really good. I wouldn't

9:49

want any other person playing

9:51

this character. So hell yeah.

9:53

Good job. Yeah. Really good job. And I think

9:55

that sometimes, you know, I can sometimes

9:57

be reluctant to be, like, really

9:59

enthusiastic about,

9:59

like, big name actors being voice

10:02

actors because sometimes, you know, you

10:04

you feel like you're taking

10:05

away from the artistry of one group

10:07

of

10:07

actors. But I felt like because of

10:09

how specific it was, I felt like the writers

10:12

really picked every person with

10:14

intention, especially since they look so similar

10:16

to their real world counterparts, so

10:18

it worked in a way that I was really pleased

10:20

with.

10:20

Yeah. I was actually even wondering,

10:23

like, when they were creating this,

10:25

like, did they have people in mind, like,

10:27

from the beginning? Or did

10:29

they like, how collaborative

10:31

was it in that sense?

10:33

Or how much, like, which

10:34

came first? Like, when did he write

10:36

the album and then was, like, oh, I wanna make

10:38

this animated thing, or did

10:40

he, like, have this animated

10:42

idea in mind and

10:44

then, like, with

10:46

that in mind wrote the album because he

10:48

knew he wanted tell this whole thing? Or was

10:50

it like, oh, these songs if I put them in

10:52

this order, that would really make sense. You

10:54

know what I'm saying? I really wish I

10:57

knew more of the behind the scenes like,

11:00

process of how this happened because

11:02

I think it's such a cool

11:04

and interesting idea. So

11:06

Netflix do documentary. I wanna know. Yeah. I

11:08

definitely would love to see like a making of

11:10

because I feel like, you know, anime like,

11:12

especially because this feels like such a spiritual

11:14

successor to like,

11:16

into the spider verse and arcane of this

11:18

very -- Yes. -- realistic, but

11:21

still very clearly animated

11:23

style. and I really dig

11:25

it. You know, I don't I don't think I know

11:27

it's kind of booji, but I feel like I'll always

11:29

still have, like, this weirdly, like,

11:31

soft spot for hand drawn animation,

11:33

but this art style is probably of

11:35

the modern one's my favorite. I feel

11:37

like it just leads to so much like

11:39

visual creativity. because it's not

11:41

meant to be totally smooth all the time, so

11:43

it's allowed the hazardous like that. You

11:45

know, it's allowed to look different to

11:47

have that more uncanny than this perfect

11:50

CGI's smoothness. I just

11:52

really enjoyed this animation style. Oh

11:54

my god. I'm like, I'm obsessed.

11:57

I'm

11:57

obsessed with this animation style.

11:59

It's like, Like you

12:00

said, it feels it feels like a live

12:03

because it moves in that way. It's almost

12:05

like two d mixed with three

12:07

d. Like, it feels --

12:09

Mhmm. -- stop motion,

12:10

almost -- Mhmm. -- sometimes. But

12:13

that's so like, when I saw

12:15

it in spider verse, I was like, oh,

12:17

man. this is I love this. This

12:19

is like a comic book come to life.

12:21

But then, like, with Arcade, I felt

12:23

like Arcade sort of, like, elevated

12:25

that idea and was like, okay, let's take this to

12:27

this level. And then this is sort of taking it

12:29

again. And I'm like, let's keep

12:31

going. I feel like we have only scratched

12:33

the surface with like what you could do

12:35

with this type of medium in this way

12:38

because it just looks so freaking beautiful.

12:40

It's like, Also --

12:42

Okay. -- God bless, like,

12:44

adult animation that looks

12:46

aesthetically fucking pleasing. It's

12:48

about time. Like -- Great. --

12:50

just, like, joke around, like,

12:52

oh, the only adult animation that

12:54

exists is ones that have to be,

12:56

like, really craft look really.

12:58

You know what I mean? Like, what what are we talking?

13:01

Family guy? No. Give me that.

13:03

Yeah. No. It was nice to see, like,

13:05

sexualities have depicted in animation,

13:07

but, like, in an adult story in

13:09

an adult art form. So that's

13:11

just jokes. You know, I really I totally

13:13

agree with you. And I just looked it up. So

13:15

they started working on this

13:16

and shaping it in twenty

13:18

nineteen. And I just love that studios

13:20

are allowed to take time to

13:22

do it because I feel like you

13:24

know, with all of the studio stuff, no

13:27

shade to nobody specific. Mhmm. But, you know,

13:29

the special effects, people have to work so

13:31

quickly now -- Yeah. -- to keep up with what

13:33

people figured. They just put on

13:35

the computer, but you can really tell at least

13:37

I feel like you can tell, like, the

13:39

video people really got to sit down

13:41

and create interesting visual

13:44

storytelling to really -- Yes. -- allow

13:46

that part of the narrative to come alive. And

13:48

so I feel like even if you're not

13:50

familiar with kid cutty or his work, it just is

13:52

visually inviting. And it's also

13:54

just really nice that it looks and feels like the

13:56

special effects team is allowed to take their

13:58

time, really craft

14:00

a narrative with their

14:02

medium? Because I think, you know, we talk about what's the

14:04

writers? We talk about the directors and writers

14:06

and everything, but the animators are also

14:08

crafting this story. It is just as important

14:10

as the words right on the page to

14:13

making it come alive. And I felt like

14:15

it definitely did. You can tell

14:17

because of little details that

14:19

they added to. It was really

14:21

thoughtful. Just the little like, that

14:23

was one of my I don't know. Something that

14:25

made me really happy was the little

14:27

like real life things that I experienced

14:29

that are now in

14:31

animated form. It was sort of

14:33

like romanticizing these little

14:35

things that I do that are really dumb. Like, oh,

14:38

there's my phone on a nightstand or oh,

14:40

there's, like, the glow of, like, when I

14:42

FaceTime someone, like, oh, this is what it looks

14:44

like. I've never

14:45

I've never seen that. Like, because

14:47

normally, when we

14:49

see, like, current day

14:51

animation, that's it's just, like, oh,

14:53

it's a Disney movie or it's, oh, it's or it's like, oh,

14:55

it's a kids animated movie. It's this It's

14:57

We don't get to see it in this beautiful

14:59

art form, so it was so cool. I

15:01

loved I loved it. It was so

15:04

smart. Everything you said I

15:06

totally agree with, especially like

15:08

all the little notes. And like seeing characters

15:11

just get high casually that wasn't gonna

15:13

be like, you know, in old days if you got

15:15

hired a cartoon or even the inclination

15:17

of alcohol, all of a sudden you were like pink

15:19

elephants dumbo. But just to have it

15:21

be like a gateway to like another

15:24

animation style, which was really

15:26

fun for me to see. Like, it made everything come

15:28

together, but I realized that we haven't spoken

15:30

about what this movie is about. Whoops. Or

15:32

this TV special. We tend to do

15:34

that. So this

15:36

special is about a is

15:38

about this artist named Jabari who

15:40

is finally, like, getting

15:42

his art together. He's got his own

15:44

plays. Just moved in. Things are

15:46

going well. And he ends up

15:49

meeting his really cool photographer, neighbor,

15:51

meadow. who is voiced by Jessica Williams.

15:53

I'm her new neighbor, Jabari.

15:56

Nice to meet you. I met him.

15:58

Girl, is that your neighbor?

15:59

Yeah. And Jibari

16:02

says at the beginning that he doesn't wanna be in a

16:04

relationship because she was a focus on his art,

16:06

focus on his journey. And then he

16:08

meets this really cool girl who's also trying to

16:10

focus on her art, and focus on her journey.

16:12

Yeah. And then they're both like, but

16:14

maybe we love each other

16:15

too. That's when I felt the

16:18

vibe's up. Either of us really

16:20

wanted nothing serious So And I was

16:22

just like,

16:23

Taylor's oldest time.

16:26

Oh, my god. This was

16:28

okay. I just need to say something here.

16:30

falling in love in New York

16:33

City is actually a

16:35

very specific experience. And

16:38

I think that this

16:40

film captures the

16:42

feeling of that experience

16:44

very well. And actually,

16:46

one of the, like, the most authentic ways

16:48

I've ever seen because I've had

16:50

this experience. I fell in love

16:52

with Joe in New York City when I was

16:54

twenty one. We were both

16:56

artists, we were so young, but

16:58

we were so in love and

17:00

there is something like

17:02

so beautiful about that young

17:04

love, but especially love in New

17:06

York City. Like, there's there's this magic

17:09

there because meeting someone in the city

17:11

is a big deal. When you're in New York, you

17:13

could almost feel like,

17:15

this energy around you. Right? And for

17:17

some people, it's too much. For some people, it's,

17:19

like, addicting. But I swear

17:22

that that energy exists because there's like so many

17:24

creative people packed in one small

17:26

space. And so you could just

17:29

like you can feel their emotions. It's

17:31

almost you're you're all emotionally connected to

17:33

the city. The city is like a part of

17:35

you, and that intense energy can almost

17:37

like amplify your own emotions.

17:39

So if you're depressed living in New York, like, that

17:41

can make you feel worse ten times worse.

17:44

But if you are

17:46

falling in love, in

17:48

New York fucking city. That

17:51

feeling is euphoria. It

17:53

is the best feeling.

17:55

It is like, it's unreal.

17:57

It's so hard to explain that to

17:59

people. It feels like, you know,

18:01

stop time. It feels like you're living in a

18:03

movie. Like, you feel so alive and free

18:05

and it beautiful, and you can feel that

18:07

in this, like, I it was

18:09

just that to me, that's what

18:11

blew me away the most. Is

18:13

it really like,

18:15

gave you that feeling of being

18:17

love young and in love in New York

18:19

City. So I was like, hell yeah. I love that.

18:21

I totally agree as someone who has fallen in

18:24

love in New York City, and it's definitely like

18:26

that. But to me, this it's so funny

18:28

because my my partner, she

18:30

just moved And now that of

18:32

being,

18:32

like, ten minutes away by train, we're

18:34

forty minutes away by train and so we joke that we're in

18:36

a long distance relationship because that's all

18:39

so, like, Then this couple, they're neighbors. I'm like, you mean, you

18:41

both got your own apartments. And

18:43

you live in the same building, and you can just go

18:45

-- Oh, like, thousands as well. -- huge

18:48

apartment. as long as I've ever seen. I

18:50

was like, where is who? I was like, where are

18:52

you guys at? This was

18:54

giving so hot. I was like, these are brook I was like, where

18:56

are you? Where is this? I

18:58

like, so you have your your both artists with your

19:00

own artist apartments. So you can

19:02

go do your business and then go back to your

19:04

own workspace and not have to feel away. I

19:06

was like, that sounds lovely.

19:08

I know. The only thing better than living

19:10

with your partner is living

19:11

next door to your partner because it's like

19:13

those things are. Oh

19:16

my

19:16

god. That's so It's

19:18

like it's like we could be together and

19:20

alone whenever we want. It's like that's

19:22

the perfect arrangement. Honestly.

19:25

Sure. I love that Jessica Williams character

19:28

Mehta, got her own story because so

19:30

often when you have a show

19:32

or movie that focuses on

19:34

just like the male artists and their angst. Like, the

19:36

woman can get totally turned into, like,

19:38

you know, a manic pixie dream

19:40

girl type. But Jessica Williams is like, no, she's

19:42

got her own vibe. She has her own reluctance about

19:44

getting in a relationship. So I

19:46

really enjoyed that. I injured that she got

19:48

to also

19:50

feel things and

19:52

have

19:52

doubts that were

19:53

based on her wanting to do her own thing.

19:56

Yeah. I mean, it's one of those things when

19:58

you have you

19:59

have two artists,

19:59

you have them both wanting and

20:02

knowing how selfish of a career that is,

20:04

how much you need to focus on your

20:06

own thing. But then, love

20:08

happens, and you're like, shit. Love

20:10

happens. Shit, man. I can't

20:12

ignore it. I can't ignore this shit because it's

20:14

like it's too real and the feelings are too

20:16

intense that you're like, Mhmm. Not damn it.

20:18

Alright. Let's do that. That's

20:20

honestly that's honestly why that's

20:23

honestly why breakups are, like, the most

20:25

creative process to be in because you

20:27

are never more you

20:29

are never more Then what do you ever just got to break it up

20:31

with me?

20:32

It's like, I am gonna make

20:34

an art that is so traumatic.

20:37

and they're gonna know it's about them, but I'm gonna

20:39

be so successful with my trauma. It's

20:42

like -- Uh-huh. -- no. No. You just

20:44

click click clacking away. It's

20:46

terrible, but it is Well, that's why so

20:48

many artists have, like, you know,

20:50

they sort of keep themselves in this

20:52

place of despair. It's a it's a

20:54

whole thing. You know, because they feel like that's the only way

20:56

that they can make art. But to me,

20:58

there were so many, like I don't know. There were so

21:00

many little moments in this

21:02

special that that sort

21:04

of like showcased this,

21:06

like, their love and one that stood

21:08

out to me was when

21:10

the two of them, like, went to

21:12

that diner together, to get lunch.

21:14

But then after, they like they

21:17

were both just enjoying each other's

21:19

company so much that when the meal was

21:21

over, they both just like didn't

21:23

wanna leave. So then they just

21:25

started walking, you know,

21:27

and talking and hanging out and

21:29

just being in the city without a

21:31

plan, without a schedule to know what they were

21:33

doing. They just, like, very

21:34

rent of them. Oh

21:36

my god. This

21:37

starts singing. My glittery.

21:40

Oh my god. But, like, that's to

21:42

me, that is the craziness of New

21:44

York. Like, when there's so many people and things

21:47

happening around you, instead

21:49

of feeding into that, you just

21:52

focus all of that energy into the

21:54

other person. It's such a freaking

21:56

surreal experience because

21:58

it's like then start to notice,

21:59

like, every little thing, like,

22:02

about them, like, the way that they look at you, the

22:04

way that, like, every time they laugh,

22:06

every time you touch hands, like,

22:08

you just your heart, like, explodes and it

22:10

feels like that crazy, like, busy world

22:12

around you just doesn't exist. And,

22:14

like, this animation style

22:17

mixed with the music. Mixed with this acting,

22:20

like, perfectly gave me that

22:22

feeling that I almost, like, cannot

22:24

explain of when you're just, like,

22:26

in New York City, but there and there's all this

22:28

shit happening, but you only care about the person

22:30

that you're, like, talking to. It's

22:32

all the time. so

22:35

good. There's also nothing

22:37

more iconic than your first meal with

22:39

the person who ends up being, like, your partner.

22:41

Yeah. Like, you know, like, because it's always

22:44

like, I remember like, the first day I had

22:46

with Anna, she wanted to go to her

22:48

favorite ramen spot and

22:51

It was so funny because her entire personality

22:54

was, like, in that date

22:56

because it's, like, she was late.

22:58

she forgot her wallet. It was it

23:00

was hilarious. And then and

23:03

then it's, like and then it's, like, those are the things that you

23:05

always hold on too. Like, you always remember, like, where

23:07

is our first date and it just, like, it

23:09

clings to you

23:09

and it's, like, usually about sharing

23:12

food because that's when you get to talk and

23:14

socialize and find out what each other likes and

23:16

it's just, Well, especially, I

23:18

love that it was like he was like, oh, I thought he was

23:20

gonna take me to some, like, muck bang

23:22

burger place. See. And it is just

23:24

blah. I was like and I'm just like,

23:26

that's right. You

23:26

make your man eat a eat a burger. Wait,

23:29

Princess. Do you have, like, a

23:31

secret spot of your own? Like,

23:33

a place that's this little

23:35

hidden gem in New York or

23:37

some sort of thing that you like to take people

23:39

or that is special to you.

23:41

It's not so much a hidden gem,

23:43

but I do love

23:46

taking people. So there's this place

23:48

called Mala project that my that

23:50

my girlfriend and her friends got me into. And

23:52

it's like, these big places where you go

23:54

and you get like these big bowls of food and

23:56

kinda like to share with each other.

23:58

And it's so good, it's so delicious, and

24:00

you can make it vegetarian, You

24:02

could make it vegan, you could make it meat however you want it.

24:04

And then my favorite

24:06

first date place

24:08

is secretly

24:12

reveal. So it is

24:14

a cafe. It's a board game

24:16

cafe called The Uncommons.

24:19

and it is in right

24:21

by NYU. And you can

24:23

go in and you pay, like, five dollars

24:26

to play video games for, like, a couple of hours.

24:28

And so on our first date after

24:31

we ate dinner,

24:31

we went there and we played marrying

24:34

mister Dossy And

24:36

it was amazing because we

24:39

fun. It was fun. And, like, we did

24:41

it with British accents. That's

24:43

what I knew. That's what I

24:45

really knew that that she was the one

24:47

because we both decided that we were going to do

24:49

it English stuff. Then we just found out, like,

24:51

most posh accents. and

24:53

it started playing the game. And it was fantastic. Oh my

24:56

god. So that's what I

24:58

knew.

24:58

That's that's so good because

25:01

it's sometimes you

25:03

don't know where what to do

25:05

on a first day. And I think a

25:07

lot of people fall into the trap of, like, let's see

25:09

a movie. But I'm like, no. A movie is not a good

25:11

first date because, you know, you can't

25:13

talk to the other person. You're just

25:15

like sitting there. And then you feel

25:17

you you can't even watch the

25:19

movie and enjoy the movie because you're so worried

25:21

about what they're thinking next to you and you

25:23

don't know, like, you don't know them yet. So it's

25:25

like, do I laugh? Do I talk to

25:28

them? Like, how What is our vibe? I don't even know our vibe

25:30

yet, but sometimes just

25:31

going to dinner, that can

25:34

be

25:34

hard too. because

25:36

you don't

25:37

like, you know, like, do they wanna

25:39

talk to you? Like, do they

25:40

like to be a little more silent?

25:43

Like, how you don't know the vibe yet either. So I feel

25:45

like you need to do something, then

25:47

go to jail. Like, you need to feel the

25:49

vibe and see if you're

25:52

connect

25:52

in. That's why I love a

25:54

late lunch date. Because

25:56

with lunch, you can have

25:59

other plants and you

25:59

can do other things. So if you're,

26:02

like, let's go get lunch and

26:04

then depending on how we're feeling, then we can,

26:06

like, go get drink somewhere because, you know, sometimes,

26:08

like, he goes to a place that does drink cheaper

26:10

or, like, for us, it was Robin, and then the board game cafe, and then we

26:12

went to go look at a record store. We just walked

26:14

around. because in New York, you can walk everywhere.

26:16

So you can keep having a date for hours because you're

26:18

just like, let's go see this one. know

26:20

that spot. Yeah. Mhmm.

26:22

So Yeah. I definite what about

26:24

you? Do you have a secret spot?

26:26

Secret Joe spot that you love so

26:29

much? Oh, I did, and it was in New York, but it

26:31

closed because of the pandemic. So

26:33

Oh, no. No. I'm sad, but

26:35

it was called It's called

26:38

blockheads, and it was called

26:40

blockheads. Blackheads was my

26:43

spot. It was on fifty

26:45

ninth between, like, ninth and tenth,

26:48

and I swear there margaritas

26:50

were magic. Like, I would go

26:53

there and have a margarita, and then something magical would have it, like,

26:55

good things would happen. And so I

26:57

just kept going there. And also the food was bombed.

26:59

So I would just, like, go there, go with my

27:01

friends, but I swear, those frozen

27:03

margaritas, there's something magical about

27:05

them. And, like, every

27:07

almost I think almost every moment

27:10

of, like, intense emotions, like, of

27:12

good things happening. Like, when

27:14

I got proposed to right

27:16

before I got engaged,

27:19

before I went to, like, Billy

27:21

like, all these, like, things that happened,

27:23

all happened right after I went to blockheads.

27:26

So amazing. And Blocket was a magical

27:28

place. It was too powerful. It would

27:30

I think I think that's what happened. I

27:32

think I figured out like,

27:34

the the power that it had, and they're like, oh, shit.

27:36

We can't we can't keep doing this. We gotta gotta

27:39

shut this down. Right?

27:41

And I think to give you guys to give you

27:43

guys like a tried and true New York

27:44

trip. If you are visiting New

27:45

York and you wanna go, like, you're going to your doing

27:48

your Broadway and you're having fun. If

27:50

you wanna find the best bars, the best place for the drink,

27:52

and you're stuck in, like, forty second or

27:54

fifty ninth, go to ninth

27:57

and tenth avenues. Yeah. Once

27:59

you are out of

27:59

the the fives to the five to

28:02

eight is bastard town. Oh. That's where you're

28:04

gonna, like, it's

28:04

gonna be overcrowded overpriced, and that's,

28:06

like, that's gonna be, like, your midtown everything. But once

28:08

you go to, like, not an up,

28:11

that's, like, more suburb

28:13

city because that's when people actually

28:15

live. And it's like the best gay bars are up there,

28:17

the best drinks food. So just keep

28:19

going up. Keep walking. Walk up on

28:21

the avenues. Don't go down. Yes.

28:24

good that's a good tip, honestly. I always used to

28:26

hang out on ninth. It was

28:28

the best It's the best one through eight

28:30

is one through eight is

28:33

Demont. Nick. But everything

28:33

passed that is really good. In the best

28:35

way, it's just really expensive. That's where the

28:38

faulty car. Yeah. So it was yeah.

28:40

Exactly. So it was all of New York. Honestly,

28:42

watching this special made me, like, wanna

28:44

live in New York again on,

28:46

like, low key a little bit. It made me miss

28:48

It did make me wish that I could afford

28:50

to have a bigger apartment in New York. Yeah.

28:53

That's what I was like. I was

28:55

like,

28:55

girl, where are they? Who's where are the listing prices

28:57

for these plates? Where is this

28:59

fantasy New York? How do we

29:01

get here. I How are you living in this brownstone

29:04

looking at place on a

29:04

photographer's salary? Tell her to

29:07

see you. Spider Man. Is

29:09

that you? Oh,

29:10

fight around my

29:13

goodness. Well, this guy, so glad to

29:15

talk to you about this. And I think I'm

29:17

glad that we you know, got an

29:20

opportunity to see it so early because

29:21

I think that we don't get

29:22

a lot of really fun romance. It's like right

29:24

now, Jennifer Lopez is carrying the

29:27

romcom genre on her back. But

29:29

it's nice to actually see, like, of

29:31

romance between two kids that have

29:33

chemistry, have nicks and common,

29:35

and, like, are just both adult

29:37

professional people in the world trying to figure that

29:39

shit out.

29:39

Yep. Also, these cartoons are fucking

29:42

man crazy. Yeah. Good for them. Love

29:44

it. Love it. Love

29:46

it. Bless you. Bless you. Bless you. This

29:48

is a fortunate to find

29:50

TV wanted yet.

29:53

Oh

29:53

my god. Okay. Princess, what's

29:55

your one more thing?

29:58

Alright. One more

29:59

thing. animation is

30:02

an immense medium. It's a genre that

30:04

needs to be respected. Make

30:06

sure everyone pay your animators and respect

30:08

your animators and stick

30:11

around for the credits. Like I said, I know it could

30:13

be hard, but if you really

30:15

wanna know who to celebrate and who

30:17

to thank for things, you should stay and

30:19

watch the credits for films like this

30:21

especially. Y'all should stay for

30:23

the credits every time. That

30:25

pisses me off. That's like a thing that people

30:27

do in LA that

30:30

people

30:30

like to stay for the credits, not just

30:32

for Marvel movies, just because, like, they

30:34

a lot of because you don't know the people might

30:36

be in the theater a lot of

30:39

times. But it's like,

30:39

y'all. Just stay. It's to get on an

30:42

extra ten minutes. You could turn

30:42

on your phone and look at it. But

30:45

come on. So many people worked on it

30:47

that, like, just for everyone to walk

30:49

out and not even have that little

30:51

moment, I feel like we need to get over that. We

30:53

need to stay a little longer. Yeah.

30:55

It's the least you could do. What about

30:57

you test? My one more

31:00

thing would be what

31:02

was that line that was said in this movie. It was

31:04

something about, like oh,

31:06

it was, like,

31:07

love love is, like fuck.

31:09

Oh, love is a motherfucker. If

31:11

you got it, Hold on

31:13

to it. And

31:15

Amen. I agree. It's

31:18

so worth it's worth

31:20

the bullshit. It's worth the

31:22

stress. It's not easy, but it's

31:24

the most beautiful thing in

31:26

the

31:26

world

31:27

is love. So it's worth the

31:30

sacrifice. It's worth putting work

31:32

in for any type of love. For love

31:34

with your family, with your

31:36

friends. There's like, that's the

31:38

tenth. Yeah. For anything. It's the best thing in the world.

31:40

Love is the best thing in the world, so it's

31:42

worth fighting for.

31:45

Love will keep us get

31:47

her. Exactly.

31:50

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31:51

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