#305: Josué, Lara, and Link discuss F9 and Black Widow, two recent movies that focus on family. Found family or chosen family narratives are common in media and we unpack how they relate to our lived experiences, and shape our expectations of familial relationships. The power of Fambly!

Josué Cardona 0:11
Welcome to gt radio on the Geek Therapy network here at Geek Therapy. We believe that the best way to understand each other and ourselves is through the media we care about. My name is Josué Cardona. I’m joined by Lara Taylor.

Lara Taylor 0:20
Hey,

Josué Cardona 0:21
And Link Keller.

Link Keller 0:22
What’s up?

Josué Cardona 0:25
y’all are like family to me, you know, you know that and I

Link Keller 0:27
no, you!

Josué Cardona 0:28
mean that. no, you are. Yes, I want to talk with the power family because the memes are good. They’re everywhere. They’re No, you don’t think they’re good? No. It’s too much. There’s too much right sometimes. I meme, just go too far. Is that does it? I think I think it’s gone too far.

Lara Taylor 0:48
Over saturate.

Josué Cardona 0:49
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It feels a little oversaturated. Kind of

Lara Taylor 0:53
like that. Anakin and Padme one.

Josué Cardona 0:57
Yeah, yeah. We missed our chance to Yeah, maybe, maybe. But they come around, they come back around. Which the power family has come back around. I really liked the Fast and Furious movies.

Link Keller 1:10
Me too.

Josué Cardona 1:11
I enjoyed them a lot. I’m so I cannot. I was I was thinking about which movie would bring me back to theaters. And I just fast nine, isn’t it? But that’s not it. I will I will wait. I’m curious. I mean, know what you’re talking about family a second. I’m curious. What movie would bring you back like into a movie theater? That’s like upcoming are coming soon. Or not announced, you know that you just wish like what would bring? You know,

Lara Taylor 1:43
I still go to movies. I just go to the drive in. Yeah.

Josué Cardona 1:48
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like to go to like, theater, theater,

Lara Taylor 1:51
I don’t need to go to a theater theater, my sound system in my car rumbles under my butt.

Josué Cardona 1:59
It’s not as convincing of an argument to a person with a better

Lara Taylor 2:02
it’s a better sound system than the theater. I’m just saying,

Josué Cardona 2:06
they’re, they’re good theaters. out there. I mean, so no, like

Link Keller 2:12
I would like to go to I don’t even know if there’s one up here. But I would like to go to the Alamo Drafthouse again and have like that kind of viewing experience, but I can’t even like think of a movie that. Like, I’m pretty sure. The last movie I saw in theaters in January 2020 was the lighthouse. And that movie was so good. That I don’t know, like, how, I don’t know how to like, get back there. You know, it feels like it’s been too much… Not enough.

Lara Taylor 2:50
I think about the fact that I might, I might be willing to go to a movie theater. However, other people in my household are not willing to go into a movie theater.

Josué Cardona 3:00
But I just wonder like, if there’s any, you know, like, for me, I think upcoming it’s like matrix 4 I think I would have gone to see matrix 4 like last June, in a pack theater, just like I couldn’t, I wouldn’t, I would have risked my life to go see matrix 4 as soon as possible. But that fast. I do want to see

Link Keller 3:18
that. And I do feel like the matrix movies are do have an additional aspect of viewing in a theater, but I don’t I don’t know if it’s enough. I don’t know if it hits the threshold of me being like, Yes, I will drive there and go to do that.

Josué Cardona 3:35
Yeah, yeah, I don’t. Yeah, like, which one, even even people who are too afraid right now. To to go to a theater. I feel like there’s got to be something that you would go to like some event maybe.

Lara Taylor 3:47
I don’t know if like, it’s not an upcoming movie. But like, before Wonder Woman 84 came out. If it was coming out in the time of we have vaccines? Where Yeah, I probably would have been like, yes, I’m going to see that in theater.

Link Keller 4:05
You did also see that at the drive in though, right? Am I remembering correctly?

Lara Taylor 4:09
Yes.

Josué Cardona 4:11
Yeah,

Lara Taylor 4:11
I’ve seen a lot of things at the drive in Yeah,

Link Keller 4:13
it is really cool that drive ins exist, conceptually. But especially the past, you know, year and a half. It has been so great. I wouldn’t know before I moved out to Washington where I was living in Santa Cruz. There was a drive in movie theater there for decades. That closed a couple of years before 2020 happened, but that was that was a big bummer.

Lara Taylor 4:42
Like they even open one up in San Francisco at Fort Mason to because people wanted that experience. By the way, the concessions at my drive in are better than any I have been. They have churros and Boba

Josué Cardona 4:59
like I’m done with you selling.

Link Keller 5:00
mmmm oh wait that sounds good

Josué Cardona 5:01
its like I don’t know. It’s it’s still doesn’t sound… gimme an Alamo better. i want that movie experience. i don’t care How much your butt shakes

Lara Taylor 5:09
Alamo closed down

Link Keller 5:11
I do I do want to offer a counter argument Josué. Like

Josué Cardona 5:16
what arguement? what was i arguing?

Link Keller 5:18
If you’re in your if you’re in your car

Lara Taylor 5:21
you don’t have to deal with other people

Link Keller 5:22
you don’t have to deal with other people also you can fart and it’s not rude at all.

Josué Cardona 5:29
if people know that you that you’re the one who farted you did it wrong in the theater.

Link Keller 5:34
Ah, I see

Josué Cardona 5:36
that’s another conversation

Link Keller 5:37
you’re evil.

Josué Cardona 5:40
So all of this to say that I have not seen fast nine, but I want to see fast nine, which is not that bad. And that’s where all the power of everybody’s talking about the power family making memes but it you know, I think I do like that aspect of the movies. And one movie that I did get to see not in theaters, but at home was blackwidow.

Link Keller 6:00
i was gonna say, Speaking of movies that I saw, about family, that I am not willing to pay for…it’s black widow

Josué Cardona 6:12
I’m sorry, I took that away from you, Go for it.

Link Keller 6:14
thank you. we added in It’s fine. It’s fine.

Josué Cardona 6:18
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I thought about it. I thought I was like, I don’t. I wasn’t even that’s a whole other conversation. Like would I even pay $30 to see this movie. When in a month or two, it’s going to be on a streaming service. Would I pay for that pleasure, and I definitely would not have paid so you’ll see blackwidow in theaters

Lara Taylor 6:36
it’s made more money than any movie during the pandemic or since the pandemic started, including all the other movies that have come out in the last few months when theaters have been open more.

Josué Cardona 6:47
Oh, that’s it’s a sad way to gloat. I mean, I get it. It’s horrible situation. The worst were the least worst off. I get it. Um, but I know the point you’re making lik...