Well, we've been watching a lot of live action movies. And I think some of it was related to Wicked coming along. Okay. And the wave of The Wizard of Oz becoming important to us. But she just, from looking at Disney +, as we scroll to find the movie that we want, it's revealed that there are these live-action adaptations of these classic films. So

when you say live-action movies, you've been watching the live-action Disney films. Correct. And not like... I

haven't been showing her Sicari. No, no. I mean, we watched the live-action Cinderella, which I'd never seen. We watched the live-action Beauty and the Beast. Yes, which I'd never seen. We watched the live-action... What else? I mean, she saw the trailer for the new Snow White, and she was like, I need that immediately.

She's literally the only person in the world who's like... I agree.

She has, interestingly, not asked for The Lion King or Mufasa. We have not seen the movie Mufasa. Oh, you have seen it. I have seen it and I did not think it was very good and is just a tremendously disappointing Barry Jenkins two-year experience. I can't wait for him to get started on something else because I was watching actually The Underground Railroad recently out on the Criterion Collection. Tracy brought this up when we were talking and i was thinking of it too and what an amazing series that is and i just look forward to his next non-disney project um and yeah these live action movies are like somewhere between fine and horrendous yeah and we've talked about a bunch of them over the years we've talked about aladdin we talked about maleficent 2. Has she seen either of those? Has not seen either of those. We haven't gotten like that far down the chain but the one that she wanted to see recently was 101 Dalmatians which is like the OG live action with Glenn Close from the early 2000s. Which is pretty good, I thought. Surprisingly good. And also I had a take for you which is that Miranda Priestly, that's just a rip off of Cruella, of Glenn in that

movie. The hair, for sure. The whole, the

affectation, the designer aspect of it. You know where like Cruella is a designer who's trying to get the fur for the puppies. Right.

I mean, I

like- Is this cited? Has this been discussed?

You know, I don't think that Anna Wintour is, you know, ripping off Cruella.

Are you sure?

I'm actually not sure. The hair is very spot on. But no, Meryl has said that her inspiration for Miranda Priestly is actually Clint Eastwood. Seriously, he never raises his voice. That's like a real thing. Cruella raises her voice for sure. Okay. So, but yeah, that's a good movie. I mean, Glenn Close is good until she was in Hillbillyology. She

admits the bad stuff. Let me see what else Alice has seen over the break. Was there something else that I mentioned that you want to talk about? Yeah, you said that there was

something that was like unforgivable that she had learned about outside of your influence.

Yeah, fucking super kitties. What? Whatever kid told her about super kitties at school, how dare you? What is super kitties? We have broken containment on curated parental experience and now culturally we are just aware of things that are just not what i want her to be seeing now obviously this happens to every parent what is super it's just a 30 minute disney plus show for morons about cats that are superheroes and it makes me want to gouge my eyes out. No disrespect to the fine people who make super kids. That is

better than Paw Patrol, at least.

It is, but like how far are we from Paw Patrol now?

I don't know. But you need to learn that we don't have that at our house.

Unfortunately, it was identified while scrolling. You can't be scrolling. I mean, it's true. It happens to us all the time. I don't want to pick a fight in my home, but this was not something that happened to me. It was something that happened to my wife. And when I came in the house and saw that that was on, I was mortified.

I have some feedback for the people who designed the Apple TV homepage. Because Knox can find the remote now and turns it on himself. And then it's like, I want that. And sometimes he tries to watch Deadpool and Wolverine or whatever. You know, they're advertising. That's actually pretty cool silo he tried he says so many times he's like i watched that i watched that no he quit after one episode like so many others um i'm happy to report that top gun maverick is just it's like a huge passion still of our um but your husband

shared with me that to soothe him at a time when he was frustrated recently, he just, he needed a little Top Gun. Oh

yeah. We had to go to urgent care for an ear infection and we sat there waiting for the, I, it wasn't even Top Gun Maverick, the movie. I just played the Top Gun theme song on my iPhone. Um, and we just sat there listening to it. Uh, and he knows how to rock out when the guitar solo really gets going in minute four of the Top Gun theme song, which is something maybe only he and I know about. No, but loves Top Gun Maverick. The interesting thing, though, the moment where he loses interest in the movie is Tom Cruise and Jennifer Connelly's quote-unquote night of passion, where he's just like, I don't care about this. Okay. That's when Tom Cruise checked out as well. He loves the boat, but as soon as they get back to Connelly's house, he's like, no, no, no. Start it over. I want whooshes. So there we go.

Man of taste.

Okay. What's

next? The

final note and the thing that I want to address. And this is also, you know, I hear from listeners, other people in our life. And this is a recurring question, just observation. We just want to check in on the monopods and how you doing.

What do you mean?

You know, you spend a lot of time alone in a dark room talking to Bobby on a screen, but really to yourself. And I want to know how you're doing. How, you know, do we need, it's just a check-in.

I mean, honestly, I feel as though I found my calling. I feel like what I want to do is connect directly. Okay. I want to look beyond the void and find connectivity. Okay. And so, I've loved being in Studio 5. So that's

been a point of connection for you? You feel closer to people? Yeah.

All my unboxing boys. We did this great syllabus. That was Bob's idea. Yeah, no, no. I know about the syllabus. That was cool. And we'll be doing many more syllabi in the future. I, you know, I missed you dearly on the show. Sure. And I had fun with other co-hosts. Yeah. But.

So that was like a... I'll tell

you what. Here's the thing. I've been watching a lot of YouTube over the last few years, like many other people. Sure. And I'm just like watching people do that. And I'm like, this is super funny. And so what I'm trying to do is some version of it that is like 50% sincere and 50% that is self-parody. I understood that. And I hope it's funny and also informative. Yeah. And I'm enjoying it.

I've been thinking a lot about what I could do in terms of unboxing videos, but my unboxing is like touring Luca Guadagnino's hotel in Rome,

you know? You should do a whole teacup series. Just teacups of the world. Can I tell you something? I

did, Zach got me Sofia Coppola's Augustinus Bader lip balms for Christmas, and it was a wonderful gift. Do any of those words mean anything to you?

I know who Sophia

is. Okay. I know what lip balm is. Okay. Augusta Spader is the body cream from Challengers. Oh, right. That I keep talking about. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And their face cream is like their product, but Sophia Coppola did a thing with them. Was that like roughly

$27,000?

Yeah, he got me all three. So it was quite an investment. But it's a lovely gift set. Thank you so much, Zach. I

like doing the videos in that room. People are like, the lighting is weird. I think the lighting looks good. It does

kind of look like you passed on to the next, you know, like to the great cinema

in the sky.