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Hey guys, this is Mel. 
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Who are we talking about today? 
You kind of teased this last 

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Week. 2 directors. 
Two directors we are talking 

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about Greta Gerwig, the actors, 
writer, director and Noah 

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Baumbach, the director and 
writer. 

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They are a couple. 
They've been together a while, 

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but they have a pretty 
interesting relationship, an 

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interesting origin story that I 
think not everybody knows about,

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so I'm going to be telling that 
story today. 

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I'm really excited to learn 
about it. 

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So what three? 
Sorry. 

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I just like choked as I was 
saying that. 

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I'm really. 
Excited. 

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I'm really excited to learn 
about it. 

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So what? 
3 words would you use to 

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describe this couple? 
I would say creative. 

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Kind of obvious, bookish and in 
inspired. 

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Inspired by each other. 
OK, those are all positive. 

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Yeah, they are. 
They are, I know, two weeks in a

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row positive. 
This is a pretty, I would say, 

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happy relationship it seems, at 
least from the outside, but 

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definitely still has drama and 
scandal. 

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I could have put that in there, 
but well, I'll, I'll get into 

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it. 
So yeah, if anyone doesn't know,

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I I think some of you do. 
But Greta Gerwig? 

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She's known for her movies like 
Frances Ha Ladybird, the 2019 

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version of Little Women, and 
Barbie might have heard of that 

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movie. 
Barbie. 

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No, hi, Barbie. 
Sorry. 

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Guys like. 
It's not my favorite movie. 

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I'm going to admit that. 
I do like, I OK, we're going to 

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talk about it. 
Let's let's talk about it when 

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we get to it in the timeline. 
OK. 

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Which what We will have to wait 
a while because that's recent, 

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but but it it's not my favorite 
movie. 

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Guys, I'm sorry. 
Stay tuned for controversial 

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opinions, yes. 
But I do like Frances Ha and 

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Lady Bird. 
I love Lady Bird, Yeah. 

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Yeah, so I I do really. 
I do respect Greta Gerwig. 

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I do think she is a smart woman.
Yeah, what should we also, We'll

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also talk about little women 
when we get there, too. 

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Yes, and yeah. 
Well, I'm not turning people up 

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too much. 
It's a truth universally 

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acknowledged that I I think Mel,
my family, we really prefer the 

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1994 little woman and I could 
write like a 200 page thesis 

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about my feelings about that. 
But yeah, and then Noah Baumbach

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he is also a filmmaker. 
He is known for. 

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He actually Co wrote Barbie and 
has created movies with Greta 

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Gerwig. 
He also did Francis Hall. 

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He directed that Greenberg, The 
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His debut movie was kicking and 
screaming not the soccer 1. 

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It's a it's like a coming of age
movie from the 90s. 

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But he's like a indie filmmaker.
Oh and how can I forget? 

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He also did Marriage Story. 
That was his. 

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He wrote and directed Marriage. 
Story and I'm sure that will 

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come up right. 
Yes, yes, yes, yes. 

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Because a lot of people 
speculate, and it's pretty 

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official, that marriage story is
based on his life and his own 

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divorce before or during Greta. 
So yeah, so who are they? 

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I'm going to start with Noah 
Baumbach because he's older. 

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Noah was born September 3rd, 
1969 in Brooklyn. 

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He grew up in Park Slope. 
So cool. 

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He was brought up in a very 
intellectual family. 

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His father was an author of 
experimental fiction and Co 

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founder of a publishing house. 
He taught at Stanford and 

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Brooklyn College, and he was a 
film critic for the Parisian 

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Review. 
His mother, Georgia Brown, was a

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film critic for the Village 
Voice and also wrote fiction. 

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His father was Jewish, his 
mother Protestant, and he had 

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three siblings, and his parents 
got divorced when he was a kid, 

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which really affected him and 
inspired his work later on. 

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And his dad actually married 
four times. 

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Oh, which I feel like it's got 
to do something to you as a kid.

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Oh, that has to, because Can you
imagine, like, getting attached 

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to your step parent? 
So was his mom the first wife? 

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Actually, the second wife? 
I think so. 

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Two of his siblings are half 
siblings, yeah. 

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I had always imagined. 
That previous marriage. 

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I went to school with some 
people whose parents got 

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divorced and then had new 
significant others, and those 

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didn't never worked out. 
And I'd imagine there'd be some 

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resentment of like, stop making 
me go through this. 

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I know. 
I I think so too. 

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So Noah, he wanted to be a 
filmmaker from a very young age.

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He have. 
We talked about a director 

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before. 
Yeah, a. 

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Flashback. 
We did Tim Burton. 

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Oh. 
Tim Burton, Tim Burton and we 

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also have talked about Lena 
Dunham and Olivia Wilde. 

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Oh yeah, true. 
But I was thinking of Tim Burton

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because I was going to say I 
feel like Noah Baumbach, you 

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know, he had that, what's it 
called? 

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The Fablemans type of 
upbringing, you know, making 

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little movies. 
And I I said the same thing for 

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Tim Burton. 
But yeah, he wanted to make 

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movies from a young age, and he 
attended Vassar College, where 

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he studied English and he 
graduated. 

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And then he worked as a 
messenger, like a paperboy for 

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The New Yorker. 
And basically, right after 

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college, or maybe even during 
college, he started working on 

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his first film, writing it and 
then trying to get it created. 

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Four years after graduating, he 
then did write and direct the 

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film Kicking and Screaming, 
which stars Josh Hamilton. 

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You might he's doing a lot of 
things. 

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But he was Clay's dad in 13 
Reasons Why, which is like how I

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most know him. 
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