Runtime

Show Contents:

0:00 Introduction

3:49 Know Your Enemy: Vanessa Buttino

22:00 The New Slang: TULLY

46:03 SPOILER Discussion of TULLY

56:06 The Other Side: Vanessa and Ryan talk further reading after Jason Reitman’s new film

It’s a holiday weekend here in the great white north; time for friends, fresh air, and fun times marked with much consumption. Sometimes, at such gatherings you even make a new friend! You find out you have things in-common, went to the same high school, read the same YA series, take your latte the same way, or…some…other common interest.

Imperfect metaphors aside, that feeling of newfound kinship is very much my takeaway on this episode of The Matineecast. Today’s guest and I have a lot of little things in common, but just never managed to get to the same bonfire at the same time. Making things even more amusing, she and I live pretty darned close together. So if I seem excited that she and I finally managed to gather around the same virtual bonfire…well…I am.

On the precipice of my two hundredth episode, I’m feeling somewhat reflective. When I think to myself about how many people I’ve managed to meet as a result of this show (like Vanessa!), I’m truly thankful that I decided to start it and stuck with it. A lot of what they’ve said about film – and about life – has stuck with me. Heck sometimes it’s even stuck with me well after my guest and I go our seperate ways.

So as I get some much-needed rest today, and spend some quality time with the people closest to me, Allow me to thank Vanessa and everyone like her who have taken time to talk to someone they sometimes don’t know all that well…and give him some new perspectives on film…

…and life.

Thanks for tuning into episode one-hundred-ninety-nine.

Vanessa’s Twitter feed can be found here. Comments and feedback are welcome, and thank-you very much for listening.

Enjoy!