This one is for everybody working to strike that balance between caring for yourself and caring for your "family of origin." A forgotten and surprisingly dramatic SNL spinoff directed by Harold Ramis in 1995, Stuart Saves His Family spoke to a younger Kevin Maher as an adult from a family where alcoholism was an issue. It even factors thematically into Kevin's new humor book, Santa Doesn't Need Your Help, illustrated by Joe Dator. 

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about feeling uncomfortably seen by Banshees of Inisherin.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Kevin Maher

Feeling Seen is hosted by Jordan Crucchiola and is a production Maximum Fun.

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Today, director David Bruckner talks with Jordan about feeling seen by Holly Hunter's character, Jane Craig, in the 1987 classic, BROADCAST NEWS. Directed by James L. Brooks, it's a journalism....satire? rom-com? dramedy?... starring Hunter, Albert Brooks, and William Hurt. It's one of those movies that is so prescient about what news media would become. And for David Bruckner -- whose latest film is this year's HELLRAISER -- saw in it some parallels with what it feels like to be a creator in any medium. 

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about the new trailer for 65.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and David Bruckner

Feeling Seen is hosted by Jordan Crucchiola and is a production Maximum Fun.

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Film critic Amy Nicholson (whose 'Unspooled' podcast with Paul Scheer is currently in its fourth season) first encountered 'Click' as a budding young critic and USC student. She didn't love it, but it did make her cry. This conversation with Jordan is an exploration of why that might be, alongside the ways things have improved and devolved in the years since the movie's 2006 release.

Then, one quick thing about an unsung badass Christmas movie, The Long Kiss Goodnight.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Amy Nicholson

Feeling Seen is hosted by Jordan Crucchiola and is a production Maximum Fun.

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Actor Noah Segan -- or, should we say, writer/director/producer/actor Noah Segan -- is the star and creative force behind his directorial debut, BLOOD RELATIVES. In it, he plays a century-old, lone-wolf vampire who suddenly has a teenage daughter to think about. Segan, a dad himself, chose another suddenly-a-father character for today's epsiode: H.I. McDonnough (Nicolas Cage) from the 1987 Coen Brothers comedy Raising Arizona. Listen and learn how fatherhood, creative genesis, vampirism, and work/life balance are all mixed into the space between these two films, made 35 years apart.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about an action movie really straddling that naughty/nice divide: Violent Night.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Noah Segan

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

Feeling Seen is hosted by Jordan Crucchiola and is a production Maximum Fun.

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Sometimes our co-hosts really struggle to come up with a character to discuss for our show. But actor Raúl Castillo (The Inspection, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Looking, and much more) went with his gut, and what came to mind immediately was The Outsiders, and especially Matt Dillon's character of lead "greaser" Dallas "Dally" Winston. Jordan, Raúl, and you the listener will all learn at the same time just why this character stuck with him all these years. 

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Raúl Castillo

Feeling Seen is hosted by Jordan Crucchiola and is a production Maximum Fun.

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Rahul Kohli is a working actor -- and thanks in part to the prolific Mike Flanagan, he's been working a lot lately.  In this episode, Rahul (whose latest film is NEXT EXIT, directed by Mali Elfman) tells us the many ways that he feels seen by Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) in the KARATE KID films, and does so with a scrappy spirit that Daniel would approve of. 

Then, Jordan's one quick thing is an ode to Rebecca Hall and her latest, RESURRECTION.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Rahul Kohli

Feeling Seen is hosted by Jordan Crucchiola and is a production Maximum Fun.

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We're celebrating our First Birthday with the one and only Paul Feig, writer/director/producer behind stuff like FREAKS AND GEEKS, BRIDESMAIDS, SPY, THE HEAT, A SIMPLE FAVOR, and lots more stuff. Starting off with his deep identification with the singularly obsessed Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, Paul shares stories of his childhood as a sci-fi loving movie nerd, his adulthood as a newly minted horror fan, and a bunch of stuff in between. 

Paul's latest is The School for Good and Evil, streaming on Netflix right now.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Paul Feig

Feeling Seen is hosted by Jordan Crucchiola and is a production Maximum Fun.

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David Bizzaro has had a long and varied career in front of and behind the camera, but his newest role is Mochi on Netflix's Waffles and Mochi's Restaurant. Mochi is...well, a mochi. He talks a lot, but doesn't say words. He's a tiny pink ball. He's friends with Michelle Obama. This week, David shares his journey into puppetry, his family background raised by an immigrant mother, seeing neurodiversity on screen, and more -- through his shows, as well as The Man Who Fell to Earth and Andor.

The Jordan has one quick thing about the return of Jennifer Lawrence (not that she ever really went anywhere!).

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With Jordan Crucchiola and David Bizzaro

Feeling Seen is hosted by Jordan Crucchiola and is a production Maximum Fun.

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“Tell me a tale of yourself, so that I might know thee,” King Arthur asks Dev Patel’s Gawain inThe Green Knight (2021). At a time in her life when she was struggling with illness and her own creative ambitions, Nyla Innuksuk heard the question as if she were the one being asked. She’ll tell us all about it – and lots of great behind-the-scenes stories of her tale of Indigenous girls in the Canadian Arctic, SLASH/BACK.

Then, Jordan takes a moment to remember director Jeff Barnaby.

Additional reading:

Jordan’s Vulture  interview with Jeff Barnaby

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Nyla Innuksuk

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart

Feeling Seen is hosted by Jordan Crucchiola and is a production Maximum Fun.

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Lucky McKee's new film, Old Man, is the latest in a career of character-driven horror favorites like May, The Woman, and All Cheerleaders Die. And in this episode, he's sharing his personal resonance with Charlie, the main character in Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973). In a powder keg of rough men always threatening to go off in a burst of violence, Charlie (played by Harvey Keitel) is a mediator who can't quite explain why he feels compelled to vouch for certain friends.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about the LA premiere of Give Me an A!

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Lucky McKee

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart

Feeling Seen is hosted by Jordan Crucchiola and is a production Maximum Fun.

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