91: Trying Hard and Eating Cookies

Movies from the 80s and 90s that hold up, horrible days that keep getting worse, boundaries with social media, Joy’s 44th birthday, and what we feel about our life’s purpose.

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This is Joy & Claire Episode 91: Trying Hard and Eating Cookies

Episode Date: September 9, 2021

Transcription Completed: September 20, 2021

Audio Length: 55:07 minutes 

Joy: Hey guys, this is Joy.

Claire: And this is Claire.

Joy: And this is Joy and Claire. Sorry, I just ate Eat to Evolve too fast, so it’s like digesting came out in my voice.

Claire: We were just talking and decided to turn on record about 90’s kids movies that really held up. Miles watched Hook for the first time last night, Which if you guys for some reason haven’t seen it, it’s what would happen if Peter Pan grew up story starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook and Julia Roberts is Tinker Bell.

Joy: So great.

Claire: Gwyneth Paltrow has a cameo, which I totally forgot about.

Joy: Yeah, I remember that.

Claire: As young Wendy. And of course, Emma Thompson, right? Not Emma Thompson. Not Emma Thompson. Come on, Claire. Maggie Smith. Maggie Smith is Wendy and is wonderful. So just, star-studded cast. Really held up. I really love kids movies that really hold up. Also, Home Alone. Miles loves Home Alone. It just held up so well. So we were talking about other movies that held up, and I was thinking about – 

Joy: There times when we watched movies, like you were saying, ET. There’s parts though that I got traumatized.

Claire: ET was scary.

Joy: Like when they quarantine the house, that hits a little too close to home right now.

Claire: And the little boy gets really sick. And when you’re a kid, you don’t know what quarantines are. Mine know what quarantine is… womp wimp.

Joy: That’s depressing. But when Elliot is sick and sad.

Claire: Not really understanding what is going on.

Joy: When I saw another movie Old Yeller was so traumatizing. Disney was out to toughen us up as kids, and I think they over-corrected with trying to toughen us up.

Claire: I agree.

Joy: Because Old Yeller was so traumatic.

Claire: I think Miles would like Big. Do you remember Big? 

Joy: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Claire: I can’t think of any scary parts in that movie.

Joy: No scary.

Claire: Maybe just parts he wouldn’t get.

Joy: Yes, I was going to say, some –

Claire: Adult themes.

Joy: Very adult themes. But not too adult. It would just go over his head.

Claire: It would just go over his head, and I’m find with that. I feel like in the 90’s, that was assumed more. It was like, we’re going to still have this romantic story line, but we’re just going to let it go over the kids’ heads.

Joy: Totally.