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In this episode, we welcome you to Fixated with Joelle & Ellen. We introduce ourselves and the new pod, and rapid-fire through some of our favorite media that we've been, well, fixated on. Enjoy!!
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Introduction to 'Fixated' Podcast
00:00:06
Speaker
Welcome to Fixated, a podcast with us. Ellen and Joelle. I'm Ellen. I'm Joelle. And this is the podcast where we talk about media and culture and all the stuff that we just can't look away from.
00:00:19
Speaker
The stuff we just can't get over. Yes, and why it all matters to us so, so much. um This is our first episode. So in this episode, we are going to introduce ourselves.
00:00:31
Speaker
We talk about why we're here. We go over some rapid fire favorites of books, movies, TV, et etc, etc, etc. And we end on some hope core.
00:00:42
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so I hope you guys like it. Check it out. Let's get into it. Yay!
Why Podcasting? Excitement and Opinions
00:00:49
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This is our first episode, Ellen. What's up? It's crazy. is This is so exciting. I'm scared. crazy Yes, yes, yes, yes. yeah um I would characterize my feelings as excited. I'm looking forward to cracking up. I'm looking forward to chatting with you as we like always do anyways. yes You know, yeah. We love to share our opinions with each other. I'm very excited to force them on other people as well. Exactly. Exactly. Which I feel like, you know, if you know us closely, like it ends up happening. You're already getting them. Yes. Yeah. Exactly. We talked so much about how like, we were just saying this the other day, like talking to like your everyday person, people who aren't each other. Right. And they'll be like, Oh, like, what did you think about this movie? And you're like, physically like, or not physically, but yeah. have Not literally, but yeah, exactly. Pulling yourself back and being like, yeah oh, you know.
00:01:46
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I feel normal about it. I have a normal opinion. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yes. I think it's been said to my face before, in fact. Like, yeah, I bet you're going to have a strong opinion about this one, about like yeah some TV show. And i was like, excuse me.
00:02:02
Speaker
Excuse me. Ridiculous. Rude, but true. I was talking to... The longest time ago, like a coworker about some movie and she was trying to describe one of the actresses in it who wasn't as big, but she was kind of big online. And she went, because of your whole thing, like I know you'll know who it is. And I was like, and I didn't know who it was.
00:02:21
Speaker
yeah So. Oh. Exactly. And she was right. so Yeah, exactly. um Know thyself is the idea. Exactly. um yeah And since we do know thyself, we are here with this podcast. We're here.
Podcast Naming Debate
00:02:33
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If we didn't already say it.
00:02:34
Speaker
Welcome. Our first episode, we plan to split this up into two. So welcome to the first part of our little intro to Fixated. Fixated Pod. Should we be calling it Fixated Pod?
00:02:47
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I don't know. you guys let us know. Vote in the comments. Yeah. Let us know which is better. If we just address it as Fixated or like yeah government name, Fixated Pod.
00:02:59
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I think maybe her nickname is cuter. We'll see. We'll see. Yeah, maybe in, might change as we go. Yeah, exactly. That's something, right? Like we were expecting exponential growth. we are capitalists. Exactly. We're all just yeah limitless, limitless, limitless growth for no reason.
00:03:17
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Can't wait to blow up and act like I don't know nobody, you will. Exactly. Forget where I came from. Exactly. it's I've been big on forgetting where I came from this year, letting the money change me. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Me jobless. I'm like oh yeah like, let the money change me, baby. Someday, someday I will let the money he change me when it comes.
Social Media Habits
00:03:39
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Yeah. And then I'll have to learn, like, I'll have like a Quixote, Quixotic. Is that the thing? Like doc Don Quixote? yes. Journey. And you'll like, I'll hear about it and stuff. Like, yeah. If I'm ever rich and famous, I will be changing myself. Yeah. We'll go for it all. We're doing personality mod, body mod, I don't know what else mod. I'm not going to be recognizable in any way.
00:04:02
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But you won't be changing? The opinions. Because those are perfect. Those are perfect. Yeah. And again, that's why we're here. like yeah Yeah. I don't know. if we'renna We're going to work out the ginks with the segue and the not, you know, exactly. Y'all are along for the ride. But basically how we're envisioning fixated our little show um is yeah, it's like chatting about movie, TV, book.
00:04:32
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music, media, culture, yeah, what did I miss? Vibe, news, not news news, culture news. Not news news, like culture news, and also, like, again, like, kind
Podcast Format and Focus
00:04:44
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of just the things that cross our desk also. Yeah, there's a lot. I've got a big desk. Yes. We've got a huge desk even. Yeah. But also it's just, like, you know, just to put in the, like, caveat of being, like,
00:04:55
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It's not exhaustive. It's what it's what we it's that like algorithmic exchange. So like in our vacuum. yeah that we live Yeah, our bubble. Exactly. But that at least at least like doors always open to like hear anything that we missed.
00:05:10
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Of course. So like let us know. you know what I mean? Yeah. like what We can take recommendations. Sure, why not? Exactly. We have socials for a reason. It's to be social. Yeah, like we're going to chat and try not to riff too much or try to riff a lot. We'll see. um We're going to gab, gab, gab, gab. We're going to have some themes and some dedicated topics to our episodes. Some guests even?
00:05:36
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Exactly. We'll have some guests because we want to talk to people also about the things they're fixated on. Exactly. Yeah, it can't be just us. We like to so hear sometimes. Sometimes we listen. Sometimes we open our ears and our hearts. um all the time Exactly. And, you know, we have a lot of friends
Friendship Origins and Media Bonding
00:05:54
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um who do really creative things. Really cool things.
00:05:59
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fun and interesting people and we're all none of us are getting younger um so it's time to kind of speak for yeah actually get me out of that but my bad totally yeah thank you um i'm getting older every single minute of every single day i feel it in my back i feel it everywhere yeah I'm getting younger and more perfect, but you know, that's okay. That should be. There you go. I'm 11. That's balance.
00:06:28
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Exactly. You're Benjamin Buttoning. am. And I'm being normal. Getting wiser with age. I'm getting less wise every single day. Perfect. Yeah.
00:06:40
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But yeah, we want to like have our like friendly friends. Yeah. And have them talk to us. Exactly. What else about the show that we hope to see? I think, yeah, we're just, as we just want to have a little fun um and be a little silly and like overanalyze media. We can see because we already do that. Yeah. Discuss the discourse, even though we're kind of both not on Twitter right now. So at least we're not getting that discourse. Yeah, exactly. like What are your, what are your advices at the moment? What's the social media?
00:07:09
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that you're using? I think I'm trying still to step back from TikTok a little bit, but I think that's still my biggest one. I'm big on the Instagram explore page, unfortunately, at the moment too. i don't really know where that one came from. It kind of took me by surprise. um But I think when I'm on the train, I'm not watching a TikTok obviously. And so I'm clicking every single box in that explore page yes and then pinterest obviously i'm a big pinterest girl i always have been oh there you go there you go big lately pinterest has done a lot for the people for the community has yeah what are your huge your vices because you don't you're not on tiktok as much i'm not on tiktok but i literally just like
00:07:50
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For anyone who fucking cares. I like announced my return last night. oh wait, this is exciting. Yes, kind of. A little bit. I'm still bit trepidatious. Okay, good. um But no, I've been um really on the grind with um still Instagram and Substack.
00:08:10
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Which like arguably should Substack be, I mean, Substack is social media. A lot of people on Substack but want to talk a lot about what Substack is or isn't. um But it is functionally social media. um And so I'm like, yeah, I'm scrolling through there low-key a lot. Interesting. I'm not really on Substack. I have a Substack. I'm reading your Substack. I'm reading your Fightmaster's Substack. Very few other people's. But I kind of just like wait for that it to come to my email inbox and I read it there. I'm not really on the app. Yeah.
00:08:43
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Yeah. And, you know, probably good for me. don't have any other social media at the moment. Yeah, I have a lot of feelings, truly just personal feelings about like the sub stack of it all that I will get into at another time, I'm sure. But I do like it. And I have a sub stack, shameless plug, called Technically Life.
00:09:03
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Read it. We love it. Maybe, i guess, you know, like if you want to. um And so, um yes, the sub stacks like taken. You're always filling the void with something. So like I stopped using TikTok.
00:09:17
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had a good few months it's been almost like eight to nine months of not using it yeah and i've been having to download videos to my phone to text them to you yeah i'm exhausted sorry i mean i'm glad you're back on and i can talk to you right now but the trick my experiment is going to just be can i engage in tiktok without really engaging with tiktok which basically translates to avoiding the for you page i'd think I think I'm going to try to like, I can build you a for you page in your DM. That's what I mean. That's what i mean. um It's this new revolutionary model of using social media that going to try, through ellen which is only yeah exactly depending exclusively upon my friends to send me things and really only looking like a friend section.
00:10:04
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Exactly. Right. I like that. like I have enough people who I follow mutuals that make enough TikToks for me to be like, cool. It's actually been a second since I've sent you any videos anyway. So I've got to get back on that grind because I'm watching and consuming a lot of edits. I'm big on TikTok edits at the moment. I've got to start sending you some. got to be saving the edits. haven't. As long as you're seeing them. Some good ones in a minute. Yeah.
00:10:27
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Yeah. They're there. We should have like a moment. You know, what is it? The Daily Show, I think, has like a moment of zen at the end of every episode. Uh-huh. Yeah. Where it's like something funny. We should have like a moment of edits. Yeah. At the end of the episode. And like repost and edit. Or like upload it I guess. On our channels. Because yeah we have. We've got all the channels.
00:10:49
Speaker
Should we jump into us, about what we've been doing lately, about our fixations? What's our, yeah yeah. Maybe let's do, again, I feel like if people, you people out there are listening to us at this stage, you probably very well know what our deal is. But that doesn't mean we can't introduce ourselves to the masses for public perception and consumption.
00:11:16
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It doesn't freak me out at all. I'm normal about it. um Love the idea of this being online forever. We're doing it fully voluntarily. Exactly. But, you know, i do have a theory about that as well, but we'll get to our theories okay eventually as it comes, you know? Yeah.
00:11:34
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Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, Ellen. Take the floor. first. Okay, well. Introduce yourself. which um I'm Ellen. I'm a media girly, a social media girly. Unfortunately, I live it. I work it. It's my job. It's my fun time. It's everything. i am a consumer, the perfect consumer.
00:11:52
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I've been saying for years, I think that I do have perfect opinions. And I am excited for everyone to have to hear them. um Yeah, I've got a lot of opinions on everything because I'm watching everything and I'm consuming everything and it's great.
00:12:04
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Period. and all i have to say about that Yes. um And I'm Joelle and I am increasingly describing myself as like a digital slash internet researcher and writer and now podcast host, I guess. Well, you know, it's all this like self-branding in this like hellhole that we live in. yeah Let's just say like the first the first place that got that um description of me was LinkedIn. but Oh, and to talk about social media that I cannot, can't stop being on. God damn it, LinkedIn.
00:12:38
Speaker
Leave me alone. Leave me free. I am heavy in LinkedIn DMs lately. know what I'm saying? Not messaging other people. People keep messaging me. It'll sneak up on you.
00:12:49
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They do. Yes. The corporate world is clawing at us. It's coming for us all. Yeah. yeah. yeah um So that kind of also suggests what I do. um i also watch a lot of stuff, consume a lot of media um happily. It's kind of the...
00:13:06
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it's kind of uh the reason to get up in the morning in a sense um but yeah but i'm also trying i'm like i try to also create stuff as well um which again mainly is just like writing i have my sub stack again um technically life go read it um and then yeah always do some like creative writing and stuff and and um now Yeah, that's that's that's me. And what I like to do now, our connection is one that was forged yeah um in the fire, the fire being Fordham University. Yes, exactly. Peel. The name of Martyr's Court. Martyr's Court. People.
00:13:50
Speaker
Wing. Yes. If you will. That sounds enticing as. Right the hall from each other our freshman year. Mm-hmm. We met. We talked media early on. And we haven't stopped.
00:14:01
Speaker
Yes. And an anecdote that I barely remember, but apparently what we talked to daredevil. We did. We talked to daredevil early. Cause you, to mention your thing, you came across a photo of me and the one and only Timothee Chalamet came across in a Facebook group. Heavy quotations came across. which i Yeah.
00:14:24
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sh And yeah. So real recognize real. I saw saw her across the hall and i was like, in my mind, I was like, Timothy Chalamet girl, period. um And she had your door open. And and my roommate were like, day one, I made my roommate leave our door open and she did not want to do that. I said, this is what I Googled is how you make friends in college. i look leaving our door open i did. and then it worked because Joelle came in and some other girlies came in and we all chatted and Joelle and I locked in.
00:14:58
Speaker
Yes. It started a beautiful, beautiful friendship. A beautiful friendship where we talk about TV all the time. All the time. And of course, like personal lives and stuff like that. other stuff too A lot of it is filtered through. and can't lie. a lot it's true Again, the movies, TVs, books, music. If you guys forgot all of your forms of media. ah Exactly. um Thank you for listening. that's what yeah That's what we get into a lot with each other. um and have been...
00:15:27
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Yeah. Like, oh, it's kind of nice. Just so many movies watched together. a lot of concerts gone to together. a lot of plays. A lot of plays. Yeah. um but A lot of comedy. to Comedy. Yes. Yeah. sound A lot of comedy, especially in college. Yes, indeed. Yeah. Yeah. um Some very funny friends of ours. And.
00:15:51
Speaker
kind don't want to do it again, but alas. But um yeah, it's really, as i said, like strongly, strongly connected. It's tied to media. um And we're such like fangirls too. we are Oh my God. Like this is a safe space for fan girl fangirls. That's what tied us together so early on to, like you said, real, recognize real. um I saw a fan in your heart.
00:16:16
Speaker
yes ho in in mine Yes. Sniff each other out. Exactly. As one does. You know, How familiar are you with the website? Archive of our own. We got into that early. Yeah, we talked we talked fan fiction early. and i feel like you can always you can smell it on a person when they because that is exclusively a positive thing, by the way. Oh, yeah. Incredibly positive. That when someone knows, knows AO3. Yeah. I mean, that means you just simply consume the finest literature of our generation. like I'm sorry.
00:16:49
Speaker
Are you kidding? There's no don't know. It just puts you, you're at a higher caliber of personhood, I think. Exactly. The novellas that those that those that those girlies were writing. I was Yeah. And and are you are we allowed to say that?
00:17:04
Speaker
was about to say. Are we allowed to say? Just little bit. little bit in my youth. Yes. Why not? It's a good thing. It's a thing to be proud of. Of course.
00:17:16
Speaker
Like not even a question. i find it more shock i find it more shocking thinking back that I didn't really write and it at any point in time. yeah Like never once put pen to paper, finger to keyboard, like never once did.
00:17:30
Speaker
but I was reading it. That is nuts. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to have to like break down a little bit more. Like, Oh, we will not like what you wrote, but like, what was, what was the like, it yeah what was like, ok what was it like even like, um, it was such fun. It was so,
00:17:45
Speaker
yeah get into that It was the joy of a lifetime. was It was kind of honor of my life. Yeah. years yeah Yeah. Isn't it crazy how that's probably like age check.
00:17:57
Speaker
We're both 25. Yeah. That's like more, I can't remember exactly. That's like more than 10, if not more than, yeah. That that was happening. I was really in it, which is that is harrowing. What have we been doing all these years? Like not really being back in those trenches. Yeah. Well, I guess it morphs. It takes different shapes. does. It does. Yeah.
00:18:19
Speaker
You're right. Yeah. yeah You can't, like, that it doesn't leave you. No, it never leaves you. It lives in your heart. It became part of me, I think. Exactly. And
Rapid Fire Favorites
00:18:29
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that's why you can see it in other people. Exactly. You can see it in your soul. Exactly.
00:18:34
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Exactly. I feel like, relatedly, we wanted to do, like, a rapid fire round, basically. Yeah, that's a good thing. What are some of our favorites? Kind of catch us up to speed with like, yeah, what what we're bringing to the table. yeah When we're talking all this nonsense about consuming media, like what media are we consuming? What what what has stuck with us? What are we fixated on? How should we do this actually? Should we just like... Yeah, let's popcorn it. Let's go back and forth.
00:19:05
Speaker
Okay. I think you start with, give me your favorite movie. Favorite movie? Mm-hmm. Favorite movie, first thought, best thought, goes immediately to Challengers. winter of course. Coming up the rear, of course, is Hoodwinked.
00:19:21
Speaker
That's all I'll say. Or Vidfilm. Yes, yes. um Both of them, very formative at different points in time in my life. yes um I feel like we'll spend a lot of time talking about Challengers. oh we will.
00:19:36
Speaker
Because Challenger is also obviously one of my favorites. um Just yes perfect. Perfect, perfect, perfect. yeah And I almost texted you this the other day, Joelle, if there was one piece of media. Actually, not one, but something I wish that I could rewatch for the first time. Other than Challengers, obviously, the Challengers trailer.
00:19:55
Speaker
My God. And see, this is the thing. Maybe we're not going to be... Perfect use of Rihanna. Yes. Just so I can get it off my chest. the thing that i The thing that makes Challengers so important, one of the many things, is exactly that. The trailer and the immediate recognition of being like,
00:20:15
Speaker
This movie is going change things. uhu It is for me entirely. And then i consider Challengers essentially a birthday gift from Luca Guadagnino to me. Yeah, because it was originally supposed to come out my birthday weekend 2023. Yeah.
00:20:33
Speaker
three Yeah. Yes. Because ended up coming out in April 2024. And so it just from the jump, it immediately meant something like way more than it should have to me. And then it freaking delivered. it Yeah. delivered So those are that's my soapbox about challengers. Now I will pose the question to you. So we'll see if like the editing works out. Oh yeah. about like i was just going to say my other favorite movie, unfortunately, Captain in America, the Winter Soldier.
00:21:02
Speaker
Perfect. Perfect. Other piece of media. And that's who I am as a person. And I think that you can kind of guess a lot of other things about me just because of that. And they're probably all correct. You know what? You're right on the money. No, yeah. The Marvel of it all again. Also drew us in together really early on.
00:21:24
Speaker
Exactly, right? um Maybe that'll have to be a themed episode. Boom. We just rehashed Marvel. Why not? um Okay, Ellen.
00:21:36
Speaker
Rapid Fire. isn Rapid. Rapid Fire favorite book. Favorite book. um At the moment, the one I'm thinking of is Song of Achilles because I reread that about a year ago and it's just so beautiful. And I have a lot that I could say about it, but we're rapid firing. So won't. A lot of opinions are not related to the news lately. Joelle, favorite book. Oh God. book um is Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin.
00:22:05
Speaker
That's what I like to say, or that's how I actually feel, but like. that's what i like to say when it comes up ah or since it's come up i'm like yes yes yes um beautiful book just fantastic um okay okay to you favorite tv show um succession it's gotta to be succession um there really was sorry yes rapid fire we're really good it was before and after succession that's all yeah um and yours favorite tv show staying away from recency bias i'm still gonna two new girl because obviously and supernatural
00:22:51
Speaker
Not a good show. And by that, but a favorite of all time. Yes. yeah Do I ask you? Did we just? No, you just said succession. Oh, my God. Okay. Favorite artist song, Joelle?
00:23:03
Speaker
Okay. Truly the actual impossible, but I will go with her artist. Posier. love hosier down down that's my man my man my man in a completely platonic wonderful i think we should just have like a beautiful friendship for rest i think so too i think you should um but yeah my man my my man favorite artist song maybe even album however yeah i don't really have a favorite i tend to listen to a lot of different it changes i don't have a favorite artist as yeah much i do have a different one every week favorite song has stayed consistent for over a decade The Gambler by Fun. It is the loveliest song in the world and I love it. It's adorable. You are fun.
00:23:40
Speaker
You are a fun girlie. Yeah, I'm fun coded. I love it. Yeah. Jack Cantanoff. Get back on that. Like, what are you doing? I don't know anything about, I'm sure there was drama. Maybe I should really study ah on this.
00:23:51
Speaker
Yeah. and Whatever reason they broke up. But the band fun. Yes, that band fun. Fun, period. Fun, period. Yeah, everyone knows it. Everyone knows them.
00:24:02
Speaker
I have such a little anecdote about fun in like eighth grade religion class. I just got in trouble for singing some of their songs. But that lady was God bless her. That's all I'll say. um God bless her.
00:24:16
Speaker
um And I kind of mean it, but God bless that's good um her. Which one? Now, because that we had to be kind of anyways. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24:29
Speaker
Was your favorite character of all time?
00:24:33
Speaker
I think I'm going to have to go at this moment. And it I know it's recent, but Shane Hollander, I'm sorry. i'm I'm seeing myself in him in a way that is one, embarrassing. And two, I like i haven't really seen in other media in very specific ways. Like i am a ginger ale girly. I'll say that. Right. And that's always been consistent. That's consistent. That's not new.
00:24:58
Speaker
That is not me following a trend because of the rivalry. They damn near stole that from you, dare I say. They took that I was watching that episode. He pulled out a ginger ale and I was like, whoa, that's my thing. Coworkers are coming up to me and calling me Shane Hollander. like it's People know. see too. I'm a ginger ale girl. yeah in episode one,
00:25:22
Speaker
He and I have the same sneakers. There's an episode, he's wearing a pair of sneakers that I have and I wear almost every day. Like it's ridiculous. These tiny little things that I'm seeing myself in, which I guess that wasn't even the question.
00:25:33
Speaker
Character you relate to versus favorite character. But at the moment, he's the one thing he got the most. So I'll i'll give it that. add Okay. Exactly. Joelle, character of all time. It's actually extremely difficult to answer this question. It's hard question. I don't know. That's why I went for the reason. I don't I think...
00:25:51
Speaker
That genuinely, I mean, I almost just have to go back to Succession because yeah it just, it really did it for me. You know what? Hold on. I think that I'm going to pull in a different one. Okay. I had some that I thought of. I'm not doing rapid fire very well. I had some that I thought of. We dropped that. Yeah. I had some that I thought of from Succession, from Challengers, blah, blah, blah, blah. Of course. But I think one that's actually quite close to my heart is, and I'm blanking so hard, is Kat from 10 Things I Hate About You.
00:26:23
Speaker
oh that her name? The main character? Kat Stratford. Yes. Yes. That's a fun one. Mm-hmm. I mean, i don't think it's realistically character of all time, but as I went through the files in my brain, um she is up there. i just love that movie and I'm charmed by it every time. And it's a perfect rom-com, perfect rom-com of its time, kind of stands the test of time. And she's a great character. And I just, yeah, I just really like her.
00:26:50
Speaker
It kind of folds into a little bit of my like, again, my soapbox, my strong opinion, whatever, whatever um about rom-coms in general. um Why I like her so much. But yeah, well she's a good one. She's a great lead character.
00:27:05
Speaker
Which important to have, obviously. Exactly, right? Yes. um I think it's you, my dear, to ask the next one. Maybe we do like two more. i don't know if there's anything else here that we think. I mean, I guess what else do we have on this list? Your favorite podcast?
00:27:20
Speaker
Well, thanks for asking. Wow. Oh my God. Thanks. Long time fan of Last Culturistas. Probably the amount of hours I've put in. Haven't been listening to them as much lately. Current fave is So True with Caleb Aaron.
00:27:35
Speaker
ah Really good stuff. Yeah. It's just fun. He's my Shayla. He's awesome. Yeah. To you answer that for myself, really embarrassingly, I'm not a big podcast person in general. yeah I'm coming across a lot of clips online, Calteresas and Caleb Heron. Huge clips, girl. Everybody. Yeah. I just, I, and this is embarrassing to say as someone posting a podcast at the moment, I don't get when you're supposed to listen to it. but I don't get it.
00:28:02
Speaker
But you know what's funny? I mean, this is, so You know what's funny? Caleb Heron, aforementioned, also doesn't listen to podcasts. And he has a great one. So it's not a prerequisite at all. It this doesn't have to correlate at all. But I also, I'll open my heart to that changing because early on in our friendship, I said to you, I don't listen to music. i don't know when you're supposed to do it. And you reacted like that's a crazy thing to say, which to be fair, it is. And now I listen to so much music. yeah.
00:28:32
Speaker
There you go. Things can change. Yeah. I've just been a long time. I think it's because i genuinely think it's because I grew up listening to so much NPR in the car.
00:28:45
Speaker
And so I just know just like the translation of forms. um I always enjoyed listening to the radio, I guess. Yeah. love that radio and love that radio like are you kidding like wait wait don't tell me on sunday like at noon or something like that like i love it it's like a trivia show it's like a news trivia show that would be on in the car and so you're like listening and you're i i just i love the form um and i like hearing and people talk talk talk um and never having a moment's silence in my life well of course not Who wants that? One last question. um Do you have a favorite actor and or director?
00:29:29
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m Director? at the moment it has to be Luca Cuadagnino, but also Alice Rohrer Walker, I think is how it's pronounced. Unfortunately, if it's not, I'm really sorry. um Who did Chimera with Josh O'Connor. And she's also done a couple others that I am just so obsessed with. Yeah.
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beautiful, beautiful stuff, beautiful, beautiful Italians, the both of them. Yeah. There you go. so great. Yeah. I had not too much else to say about that, but just something about, oh my God, there's cinematography, there's storytelling, there's this and that. And it's all so slow and drawn out and gay and gorgeous and I love it not really Alice as much but beautiful beautiful stuff um actor it it changes every week but a long time longtime consistent favorite has been Timothee Chalamet there you go so I guess he's up at the top of the list yeah there you go as he wants to be exactly he loves you he
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favorite director is also basically luca we can We can collide there. a little bit who else. Yeah. Yeah. Like haven I did think of, who did I think of?
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I thought a little bit of Nora Ephron. Ooh, good. Did I say her name correctly? i think Does that sound weird? um That's how I say it. Yeah, right? Oh, I hope so. I thought a whole little bit because again, that like rom-com back. Yeah. Prolific.
00:30:58
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Prolific lady. um But realistically, it's Luca. And then favorite actor. actor actress i think i will go also like yeah change is plenty honestly just like i just i have many of them that i respect in a normal healthy way um but more recently i keep on being like i love julia roberts ah her she's just like uh banger after banger charm itself gorgina i just yeah i really like her i really like her aaron brokovich is like randomly one of my favorite movies i've seen plenty of times and it's so good yeah fantastic yeah she's so good how's that for a rapid fire boom look at that wrap that up Yes. One thing we're never going to do is talk too much or draw things out. just not know more
00:31:53
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that's not us. doesn't ring a bell. No, we stay on topic. On topic for sure. Wait, that was actually fun. Okay. That was, yeah, that was kind of like our intro. I mean, fight with us, I guess, if you think any of our favorites are stupid. Yeah, because they're not. They're perfect. Yeah. Immediately defensive. Off to the hand. Off to the hand. um Yeah, I guess, like, before we get, before we maybe, like, transition to part two, maybe we also just, we do, like, don't know, kind of, like, temperature check? Like, maybe this is, like, a question. Like, what do you hope to get out of this, Ellen? Oh, my God. um
00:32:38
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I don't really know. I feel like I don't have one specific thing. I just, we one day we're texting each other, obviously, as we do. I think we were talking about those men that were podcasting about heated rivalry. And we were sharing our opinions. And I said, Joelle, hang on.
00:32:55
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Why do we not do this? And I'm excited to do it because you said, yeah, you're right. Why don't we do this? It was a very simple origin story. really was. Yeah. because we We really locked in Yeah. And very like, yeah, very tied to the heated rivalry of it. It was. In a way that like, I'm still going to give a year to like unpack exactly why that show also triggered so much in my life. Yeah.
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But yeah, but yeah, but exactly. That was kind of the the thought. We were just like, one second. Anything? yeah Like, I'll believe in anything. will believe in anything. I'll believe in anything. You'll believe in anything. Exactly. um i need sunshine. Like, girl, I need a podcast. know what I'm saying? Exactly. Exactly. And so,
00:33:52
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Yeah. I feel like similarly, there's like not one thing i want to get out of this. It's just that I love pod. Yeah. And I think this is like a fun project to do. And I think, yeah, exactly. um And I think as we've like, as we like developed the idea a little bit more, I, for one, am like really attached to seeing through the idea that like,
00:34:17
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All of this like media consumption and stuff, high volume, fast, slow, whatever you want. That's like really kind of made such a, such a like a thing in our lives. It does like very strongly relate to like what we actually do and think yeah and create in life. um I think in overwhelmingly positive ways for my life thus far, but I guess, yeah, i don't know. I guess there's ways that it can be bad too, but like, whatever. Like, um People can be like weird and obsessive and like yeah weird, be up obsessive in the weird way versus obsessive in the cool, hot and fun way. In the cool, beautiful way.
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Exactly. Yeah.
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But yeah, I like that. I like thinking about that connection. And it's a very real part of, I think, how I live my life. And so it is i want to explore that more. It's good to explore. With my best friend. Yay. Yay. It's to do things together to start new adventures and journeys. Exactly right.
Hopeful Conclusion
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And we're at such a good age. Smack dab in the middle of our 20s. Exactly. We're so young. the world is our oyster. We're young. We've never been older. no
00:35:32
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Yes, exactly. So yeah, I guess if you want some hope core. Yeah, exactly. Hope core from Ellen and Joelle. Yay. I mean, fork found in kitchen. Exactly. We're hopeful girls.
00:35:46
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Yeah. Hope is a discipline. Look at everything stretching out in front of us. So beautiful and sparkling. Exactly. Oh, you just gave me chills. I'm about to cry. no one almost made me cry this morning.
00:35:58
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why There was like, it's Women's History Month. And there was um an ad on ESPN because ESPN is always on in my house. And not an ad, they did like a little montage that was like going through all this like misogynistic coverage and opinions of like women in sports over the years, over the years, over the like decades and like eons, whatever the fuck. Then, you know, and as you'd expect that it like shows like all these women like excel. excel I'm literally getting like goosebumps right like, excelling at sports. And I was like, oh my god. i was like, wait. I was like, people where so people are... People. Men.
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Men. Patriarchal society. was like, oh my god. i was like, they were awful to these women. and then, look at that. And then we have Caitlin Clark and Serena Williams and, like, Alyssa Liu and, like...
00:36:46
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was like, wow. It really got me. It really got me, actually. That sounds lovely. I'm going be Googling that after. Hope. Perfect note to end this on. Exactly. We'll be back with another episode so soon. What is it to say about... What are we supposed to say? See you later. Yeah, see you later.
00:37:10
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Listen to the next episode that is like there to listen to right now. Yeah. All right. On wherever you get your podcasts, I guess. Exactly. Follow us. I don't know our handles. Not off the top of my head. That's bad. We gotta get on. Yeah. But yeah follow us on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube. Yeah. Subscribe. People say subscribe. Like and subscribe. Oh, just kidding. Yeah.
00:37:33
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Well, yeah. You can subscribe on a podcast channel. Yes, exactly. Subscribe to our pod. um This has been Fixated With Ellen and Joelle. Yeah. Exactly. Kisses.
00:37:44
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Kisses. Bye. See you later. Bye, bye, bye, bye. See ya.