Podcast Day 2023

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spk_0 Hello, my name is Talia Smith and you're listening to Once Upon a Time, a storytelling podcast.

spk_0 Hey friends, it's been a while.

spk_0 But today is International Podcast Day, so we just had to celebrate.

spk_0 In lieu of a traditional episode, today I took to the streets to ask some of my friends and family about their favorite stories.

spk_0 Or, I should say, their most recent stories.

spk_0 Because as you'll hear, it's not always their favorite.

spk_0 We'll go through books, movies, and even some TV shows.

spk_0 And I guess you'll get some fun little comedic bits along the way.

spk_0 We're going to start today off with my favorite conversation, movies.

spk_0 And to better start a conversation about movies, then the woman who introduced me to movies in the first place.

spk_0 My mom.

spk_0 So listening as my mom, my grandma, and a couple of my friends talk about the last movie they watched.

spk_0 My name is Deborah Smith and I know you because I'm your mother.

spk_0 The last narrative would have been Barbie movies.

spk_0 I thought it was fantastic and it was relatable to many age groups.

spk_0 So I enjoyed watching it with my children and my mother.

spk_0 And would you recommend it?

spk_0 Yes.

spk_0 Okay.

spk_0 Awesome.

spk_0 Hi, my name is Marie and I'm Tally's grandma.

spk_0 My last movie that I saw was The Little Mermaid.

spk_0 And I liked it, but I was a little bit disturbed about some of the scenes.

spk_0 I have a fear of ocean.

spk_0 I have a fear of drowning.

spk_0 And some of those parts left me a little uncomfortable.

spk_0 But I thought the actors in the movie was good, except I feel that that's too dramatic.

spk_0 I worried about what young children would have thought about it.

spk_0 And if that would have instilled a fear in them, like it did with me when I was young.

spk_0 I didn't want to be negative about it, but I thought why does Disney always have to have a villain?

spk_0 Or something scary, otherwise it was good.

spk_0 Yeah, I agree.

spk_0 I was cute.

spk_0 I liked the music.

spk_0 Did you like the music?

spk_0 I did.

spk_0 I loved the music.

spk_0 And I thought that the characters, the female and male characters were good.

spk_0 All of that was good.

spk_0 It's just that the certain scenes were unnerving.

spk_0 That was it, but it was good.

spk_0 My name is Hannah David.

spk_0 And I was on two episodes, The Wizard of Oz episode and The Nutcracker episode.

spk_0 The last movie I watched.

spk_0 Oh, practical magic.

spk_0 It was actually my first time watching it.

spk_0 And I really liked it.

spk_0 I didn't really know much about it, other than I had heard it's a great movie to watch this time of year.

spk_0 So we set my roommates nice, sat down and watched it on Saturday night.

spk_0 And I really enjoyed the story.

spk_0 And I thought it very much gave off spooky fall vibes, which I liked.

spk_0 I would absolutely recommend practical magic to the group.

spk_0 I thought it was a great movie.

spk_0 My name is Max Malan.

spk_0 I know you because we got to grad school together.

spk_0 Oh, I watched that movie at Netflix.

spk_0 Love it for a sight.

spk_0 I loved it and I cried.

spk_0 Hannah and I sat on the wood.

spk_0 My favorite part was when the girl shines up in the sunset's a funeral.

spk_0 But it's actually like a weight and a woman's alive.

spk_0 Incredible.

spk_0 Well, now that you got your movie recommendations,

spk_0 I think it's time for us to imagine ourselves curled up on a comfortable chair with some hot cocoa

spk_0 or a good cup of tea, reading a book.

spk_0 We've got a couple of good book recommendations here.

spk_0 You'll hear from my other grandma and a couple of my friends.

spk_0 Stay tuned.

spk_0 I met you when you were 15 minutes old.

spk_0 And my name is Alia Aliah's Mimi to you.

spk_0 This is so embarrassing, but it was a cute little book.

spk_0 Tell me everything.

spk_0 Oh, Lord.

spk_0 It's name is Elvis and the dearly departed.

spk_0 Elvis is a bass of pound.

spk_0 And things he is the reincarnation of Elvis Presley.

spk_0 Callie is his person.

spk_0 And they've worked at the Turtle Rest funeral home.

spk_0 And she does the makeup.

spk_0 You would think this would be dark.

spk_0 This is actually very funny.

spk_0 I would recommend it to someone who really a break where they sometimes can laugh outside in Elvis.

spk_0 The laugh found loud in Elvis.

spk_0 But I would not recommend it to anyone who doesn't appreciate Southern cozy industries.

spk_0 I'm Marina.

spk_0 I am Talia's roommate.

spk_0 At the most recent book I read was River Woman River Demon by Jennifer Given.

spk_0 I read it on Libby.

spk_0 Libby is an app that connects you with ebooks from your local library.

spk_0 So I get my books from the DC Public Library system, but they come straight to my phone.

spk_0 Yeah, this book is the story of a family living in New Mexico who practices some fabulous Chicana witchcraft.

spk_0 And finds themselves in the middle of a complicated murder mystery plot and deals with it through family, community, and a little witchcraft.

spk_0 It's a blast and I would highly recommend it.

spk_0 My name is Rachel.

spk_0 I know you because we have been as trans since school.

spk_0 The last story I consume book was called Yeah, Endurance by Alfred Lansing.

spk_0 It's a non-tiction story and it's all about Ernest Shackleton who is, I guess, an explorer, I guess is the collector.

spk_0 He was known for traveling to the Arctic and this story was all about, I think it was his third trip to the Arctic.

spk_0 But the goal was that they were going to be the first expedition to cross a continent of Antarctica.

spk_0 I didn't try the book.

spk_0 I think the story is relatively very interesting.

spk_0 Like some of the stuff that happens in it is very crazy and like stuff that you're like, there's no way that happened.

spk_0 But it did.

spk_0 I would say there's a little bit too much boat flingo in it for me.

spk_0 So like you kind of had to get through that.

spk_0 Luckily it's not a long book.

spk_0 It's only like 200 or 300 pages.

spk_0 So like it wasn't that long and you think on the boat.

spk_0 Would you recommend it?

spk_0 I would.

spk_0 I would give this stipulation that it is a nonfiction book.

spk_0 It is written, I think, relatively well for a nonfiction book.

spk_0 Like interestingly for a nonfiction book.

spk_0 Because I think sometimes nonfiction books can get a little dull.

spk_0 Yeah, particularly.

spk_0 Although I guess I might be in the minority.

spk_0 We read it from my book club and I think only like two of us really liked it.

spk_0 Someone thought it was okay and then the other people were like, I was not interested.

spk_0 And then I was like, well, okay.

spk_0 My name is Julia Kielstrap.

spk_0 And I know you threw a group of books.

spk_0 Well, the last book I read was actually finished it last night.

spk_0 It was called the Unexpected President, the Life and Times Chester AR3.

spk_0 I stopped Greenberger.

spk_0 I loved it.

spk_0 I absolutely loved it.

spk_0 I had a very, very low opinion of Chester AR3.

spk_0 I didn't know very much about him and his presidency.

spk_0 And obviously this is one biography.

spk_0 So it could be a pretty biased biography.

spk_0 I don't know that much about the man.

spk_0 But my understanding of Chester AR3 is incredibly more nuanced and more forgiving and open than it once was.

spk_0 And he seems like a pretty good guy.

spk_0 Honestly, the introduction of the book, the author had said something like,

spk_0 Chester AR3 is a man who went wrong to correct himself at the end.

spk_0 And I was like, all right, that sounds easy out.

spk_0 But I think it was pretty great analysis.

spk_0 I learned so much about DC and New York, two places in which I lived.

spk_0 And you should read this book if you have any interest in presidential history.

spk_0 My name is Samantha Weinberger.

spk_0 Tolly is Smith and I met in college.

spk_0 She's one of my very best friends.

spk_0 And yes, I have been on the podcast.

spk_0 Oh, okay, the last book I read is from the warrior witch duology.

spk_0 It was called The Frozen Crown.

spk_0 I loved it.

spk_0 So I like to read a lot of fantasy books.

spk_0 I think it's because I think our real life is too boring.

spk_0 And so if I can imagine myself in a random, far away place with mythical creatures,

spk_0 I can like picture it in my head and I just die right into the storyline and the plot.

spk_0 And just the overall adventure of it all.

spk_0 Finally, we have some TV shows.

spk_0 You'll hear from a couple of friends, my sister, as well as our fearless co-producer, Emily.

spk_0 My name is Juliana Pica and I know you because our moms are best friends

spk_0 and then they had babies and the babies became best friends and we are the babies.

spk_0 So I'm currently watching How I Met Your Mother.

spk_0 I'm on the final season and now I love it.

spk_0 I have to be honest.

spk_0 I was watching it as a recommendation.

spk_0 And I felt like I was kind of pushing through it at the start.

spk_0 And I think that it has a lot to do with like, it's kind of hard to watch things from the 2010s.

spk_0 Now, you feel like, just things that, you know, they thought were funnier, like, objectively not funny.

spk_0 Or, you know, just maybe such as an hit the same because it's not as topical.

spk_0 But now that I'm at the end, I really love it because it was a show full of Easter eggs.

spk_0 And as a Taylor Swift fan, I appreciate an Easter egg.

spk_0 Amazing.

spk_0 So you've found this from a recommendation.

spk_0 Would you go on to recommend it to somebody else?

spk_0 Yes, I would, but I would, I would caveat a lot of those things.

spk_0 I think I'd be like, what?

spk_0

spk_0 Versus the person who wanted me to watch it was like, it's just the best show ever, period.

spk_0 At the beginning, I was like, this is objectively not the best show ever.

spk_0 For me, and maybe for some people it is, I'm not here to yet anybody's yet.

spk_0 You know what I mean?

spk_0 My name is Krily Denise Smith.

spk_0 We share a mother.

spk_0 Actually, my sister's.

spk_0 I was on Betsy Park because she was an icon in a historic place.

spk_0 I was on a set in the sexville where we grew up.

spk_0 Currently, I'm re-washing Gilmore Girls because it's the start of fall.

spk_0 And how can you start fall without watching Gilmore Girls?

spk_0 I like, or pretty much like pre-college.

spk_0 And then the later seasons get a little frustrating.

spk_0 But I really enjoy the year in a life, the one I came out in 2016.

spk_0 That was so funny.

spk_0 And I thought they were going to come out with another one, but it's literally been so many years.

spk_0 I thought we'd get a part two of that.

spk_0 Personally, I think that Logan is the best one for Hori personally.

spk_0 Because he calls her out.

spk_0 He comes from the same kind of world of her grandparents, and she loves her grandparents.

spk_0 I also like Jess, but in the early seasons, he's a total jerk.

spk_0 And he gets like a redemption arc.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 And then his redemption arc, he's almost too good for Hori at that point.

spk_0 When he comes back into my life and is like, I made something on myself.

spk_0 And he's almost like too good for her.

spk_0 So I'm to that and no one likes Dean.

spk_0 And if you like Dean, you're 16.

spk_0 Great answer.

spk_0 Would you recommend Gilmore Girls to the fans?

spk_0 I would recommend Gilmore Girls to the fans.

spk_0 I honestly think it's not like a girl's show either.

spk_0 Well, maybe it is, but I don't know.

spk_0 I think it's good.

spk_0 I think anyone can watch it and enjoy it and get invested.

spk_0 And I think half the fun of the show is that you get angry at their decisions.

spk_0 But you keep watching.

spk_0 Amazing.

spk_0 Hi, this is Emily Joba.

spk_0 You may know me as one of the producers of this podcast alongside Talia.

spk_0 And I'm so excited we're doing this special episode.

spk_0 The story I've been engaging myself in recently that I've been really enjoying is the TV show Reservation Dogs.

spk_0 I just finished the series.

spk_0 They had three seasons that were on FX through Hulu.

spk_0 And they just wrapped on their third season.

spk_0 And honestly, I love when a show knows when to end.

spk_0 The third season really takes a different direction where you're focusing more on each of the characters individually and putting conclusions on their stories.

spk_0 And the show is really...

spk_0 While it deals with a lot of heavy things like grief, like suicide, losing family members,

spk_0 and there are even episodes in the third season where they start to unpack the trauma of boarding schools and residential schools.

spk_0 The way that the United States government has neglected reservations and tribes and all sorts of heavy issues like that.

spk_0 But the show also just looks at, you know, what a what a call teen hijinks.

spk_0 There's kind of this other otherworldly element to this series as well, which I'll just really intertwines beautifully.

spk_0 I've been watching this show for the last few years.

spk_0 And it really has touched me in so many ways.

spk_0 I feel like I know the character so well.

spk_0 I think the sense of humor is really great.

spk_0 As someone who lives in New Jersey and is white and doesn't...

spk_0 I've never been to Oklahoma.

spk_0 I've never really been on a reservation or know much about that culture.

spk_0 But getting to see what that's like and seeing the community values and the culture and all that stuff.

spk_0 And the show is produced and made and acted by Indigenous people.

spk_0 It's just really cool.

spk_0 And I'd never seen anything like it before.

spk_0 And I hope you see many things like it again.

spk_0 So I highly recommend it if you just want some gritty but lighthearted, touching, informative TV series.

spk_0 I highly recommend.

spk_0 You can learn more about Once Upon a Time, a storytelling podcast by checking out our Instagram and TikTok at a storytelling podcast.

spk_0 You can also email us at astorytellingpodcast at gmail.com.

spk_0 Our music this season is Hope Full Star by John Bartman.

spk_0 Once upon a time, a storytelling podcast is a production of Tallyusmith and Emily Joba.

spk_0 I do have a final question that we're asking everyone today. It's kind of silly. Are you ready?

spk_0 Okay.

spk_0 Who do you think is the most well adjusted Jonas brother?

spk_0 Oh goodness. Well, I think Nick is.

spk_0 I think Nick is this boy.

spk_0 I'm really next.

spk_0 It was gonna be Joe if you had asked me a couple weeks ago.

spk_0 But now, honestly, I think it's Kevin.

spk_0 Kevin.

spk_0 Probably Kevin.

spk_0 Oh, for what Kevin?

spk_0 Oh, I'm gonna say Kevin.

spk_0 You've never seen an article about Kevin.

spk_0 You know what I mean? Like you simply, you just don't.

spk_0 You know, Kevin was a date and I'm breaking up with Miley Cyrus.

spk_0 Kevin wasn't, you know, watching his wife on a ring doorbell in another country because he asked her landlord for access to it.

spk_0 Kevin, Kevin simply is. He's a new jersey.

spk_0 You know what I mean? I think that's really all we could ask for.

spk_0 The end.

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