Jonathan Goldstein

Maybe that's a part of it.

I don't know.

I think this particular theater, because it's mid-century, I had the experience last Christmas of going to see It's a Wonderful Life there.

And I found it to be a very emotional experience.

Like it's just, I mean, it's just a room.

But it, I don't know, all of this stuff sounds very corny.

I mean, my father used to watch these black and white movies and refer to it as like a time machine.

And it is corny.

Kind of like that.

There is this feeling of the past kind of erasing and you're kind of existing in all times at once.

Beyond that, it's probably just pretty banal.

It just, yeah, there's just something extraordinary about in this day and age being able to kind of like turn your phone off and shut out the world for a couple of hours.

Is it my voice?

You figured out the one thing that's dragging down this podcast?

I'll take one this time.

Leaving my parents' house...

I have to say, and you know, and this is kind of like, you just don't know what you don't know back then, but I was nothing but excited.

Um, I didn't enjoy my childhood very much.

And the idea of being able to make my own rules, uh, was very exciting.

And I remember when I, I hearken back to it now that I got a kid, I think about how sad my mother was, how she was sitting on the edge of my bed.