Damian and Anne kick off their inaugural episode to talk to movie star Samantha Mathis. You Might Know Her From “Pump Up the Volume”, “This Is My Life,” “Ferngully,” “Super Mario Bros,” “The Thing Called Love,” “Little Women,” “How to Make an American Quilt,” “American Psycho,” “The Strain,” “Under the Dome,” and “The Clovehitch Killer." She’s also in the upcoming season of “Billions.” We talk to Samantha about rolling with the ‘90s version of The Factory that included REM frontman Michael Stipe and a young Liv Tyler, moving to New York to pursue more stage work, the death of River Phoenix, and repping for her union as an officer for SAG-AFTRA.

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Discussed this week:

Samantha Mathis’s IMDB

Glenn Close carrots

This is My Life

Gillian Armstrong, Nora Ephron, Mary Harron, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Guinevere Turner

The Thing Called Love (Peter Bogdanovich)

Clovehitch Killer + Charlie Plummer

'90s "Factory" crew: Michael Stipe, Stephen Dorff, Stipe, Liv Tyler, Spank the Monkeys, Peter Stuart, Tom Gilroy, Jim McKay

Contax cameras

MTV Veejay Martha Quinn

Adria Petty

The Final Girls (M.A. Fortin & Joshua John Miller)

Richard Masur

Laurence Olivier/Dustin Hoffman “try acting”

Missing Persons - "Walking in L.A."

Prez of SAG/AFTRA: Gabrielle Carteris