The Map of Tiny Perfect Things: Part 1

Get ready to bin in it for the long haul with Nicole Keating, Ben Silverio, and Ansel Burch. They’re pop culture observers/ zany podcasters/ excellent friends who may just be able to figure out this time loop before they go crazy trying.

This is our drinking and smoking rule episode, chock full of “party favors” in the form of rules to follow while you watch the movie to help you keep an eye open for key elements, or maybe just to make you feel better.

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• Nicole Keating is @OGNicoleKeating on Twitter and IG.

• Ben Silverio is @Bsilverio20 on Twitter and IG.

• Ansel Burch is @Indecisionist on Twitter and @TheIndecisionist on IG.

Join us next week for our review of The Map of Tiny Perfect Things and make sure you’re subscribed because all month long, it’s #Time2Party

Episode Transcript

Ben Silverio 0:04

Hey I'm Ben Silverio.

Nicole Keating 0:05

And I'm Nicole Keating.

Ansel Burch 0:07

And I'm Ansel Burch

Ben Silverio 0:07

And it's Time 2 Party

Ansel Burch 0:12

today's episode on the math of tiny, perfect things was recorded on the second of May 2023. We are not doctors, we don't give medical advice. Please drink responsibly.

That's definitely genre. But we can pick a movie. What are we watching this myth?

Ben Silverio 0:32

Party?

Ansel Burch 0:32

Month

Ben Silverio 0:36

Party people, welcome back to time to party, where everything's made up. And the points don't matter. This month, we're looking at the Prime Video Production known as the map of tiny, perfect things.

Nicole Keating 0:51

I did not realize this was an Amazon original. That is lovely. Yeah. Speaking of acting work, I would say that the best company to work for is Amazon.

Ben Silverio 1:00

Oh, yeah.

Nicole Keating 1:00

Yeah. Like my best experiences have been with Amazon productions. They just like they treat you really well. It's not like, I know, I think they just have a lot of money to throw around. Yeah.

Ansel Burch 1:10

They've got a million billion dollars. Here.

Nicole Keating 1:12

The food is amazing. I mean, dude, I did like some some I was basically the photo double for a 13 year old boy.

Ansel Burch 1:20

Sure

Nicole Keating 1:21

Yeah, like you do that that's the most money I've made as being like the standard photo double for this 13 year old boy, most money I've made acting. And I gained like four pounds working on this two week episode, because the food was just so amazing. And union rule says you have to be fed certain intervals. And so we were fed at very generous intervals. And it was good.

Ben Silverio 1:46

So the movie the map of tiny, perfect things. Released in 2021, is based on a short story written by Lev Grossman, who may be familiar to some people who watch the magician's. Yes, yes, Lev Grossman. Very familiar name. And this was a

Nicole Keating 2:07

it wasn't actually also magical in its own way.

Ben Silverio 2:10

Oh, yeah.

Nicole Keating 2:11

A little a little bit of magic, because who knows what's at play here. And so yeah, love Grossman, I think has a has a

Ben Silverio 2:20

He likes magic.

Nicole Keating 2:21

He likes magic. He likes he likes a genre, as do I

Ben Silverio 2:24

Right? Nothing wrong with that.

Ansel Burch 2:26

So say we all

Ben Silverio 2:27

and if you don't know anything about this little movie that you can find on Amazon Prime Video. Our good friends at IMDB. Tell us, Two teens live the same day repeatedly, enabling them to create a map of things to remember.

Nicole Keating 2:43

I also read that IMDb description and I was like this is lackluster.

Ben Silverio 2:47

Yeah, I cover this happens, I guess.

Nicole Keating 2:50

Yeah, I guess that happens. The map. The title is lovely. The map is well it's kind of secondary, though. It does I think become a little bit of a MacGuffin towards the end. Sure. That you know, but I do feel like the map itself is kind of secondary to the plot for a lot of the for a lot of the movie but it is a lovely title.

Ben Silverio 3:09

Yeah,

Ansel Burch 3:09

it was in the logline. So they had to keep it

Nicole Keating 3:11

they had to they had to Yes, we will definitely get into the map more in episode two. But in episode one we like to start you all out with some drinking and smoking roles. So you have a good reason to watch the movie. or rewatch the movie will probably watch the movie because this is from like 21 Yes so a couple of years ago and I definitely wanted to see this one when it came out so I'm glad we I'm glad we did it for for we all knew that at Prime Video was like worth it so

Ansel Burch 3:37

probably slept on this one

Nicole Keating 3:39

I have had every TV service for as long as it existed TV is an extremely important thing in my life. It was also my favorite medium to work in

Ansel Burch 3:49

love with your favorite medium on your favorite platform. This movie should have been a slam dunk.

Nicole Keating 3:53

Yeah, that's I mean truly and I will get into it in episode two but I enjoyed it yeah thumbs up

Ben Silverio 3:59

yeah all right. So let's let's get started. Nicole your first rule

Nicole Keating 4:08

okay, my first rule and this is definitely is this this might be my only rule this is so I have one drinking rule and one smoke every time they drink you drink also do they get hangovers in this universe? See important question young questions are being asked here tonight my friends

Ansel Burch 4:32

called sympathy drink rule exactly the sympathy drink

Nicole Keating 4:34

because there is a lot of I mean, yes, they're teenagers and no one on this podcast has never done has ever done any underage drinking whatsoever. But you know, they're definitely getting they're getting their money's worth out of this out of this time loop when it comes to the alcohol. Yeah.

Ben Silverio 4:51

Answer What was the moonshine like in Ohio back then?

Ansel Burch 4:54

No idea. I didn't drink until I was 25 and married. Oh wow. Huh Oh, on my honeymoon it took her all of a week to get me to drive me to drink shout out to tab but ya know I grew up behind and so in the in the hyphae drinking is yeah but I kind of like stopped caring like I've never really had a strong relationship with with religion and so like in college I was finally like you know what I don't really think I need this

Unknown Speaker 5:29

yeah

Ansel Burch 5:31

but I kind of like just didn't start drinking until our honeymoon and I was like you know what we're at a all you can eat and drink resort if there's a time this is this is it?

Nicole Keating 5:40

This is it. That's definitely what was your time? Yeah. Was your first trip. That's a very good question. Can

Ansel Burch 5:44

you colada? You do let me Yes, I rum rum drinker ever since Fair enough.

Nicole Keating 5:52

I drank it Seders growing up. But I did not drink in high school. I was two my friends and I were we were the honors kids. So we had more important things going like college. And there were definitely a few parties senior year that got broken up and like people like got in real trouble and like possibly, like losing like college admissions, scholarships and stuff. Yeah. Not our group of friends. But like at our school. Sure. But we were like leaders and really smart. And so we had to be examples.

Ben Silverio 6:22

The smart kids just knew to drink better stuff.

Nicole Keating 6:26

Like I did. So the

Ben Silverio 6:28

brandy, I think was our drink. Oh, wow.

Nicole Keating 6:31

I mean, my sister my sister drank in high school. I remember in college coming home, I was staying at my mom's house and I remember coming home from a party and my sister and I were both coming home from a party wasted

Ben Silverio 6:45

my first rule is the same first rule as our Palm Springs episode. Ah, every time it resets every time it resets. Oh, that's

Nicole Keating 6:55

a great one. That's a great one.

Ben Silverio 6:57

Yeah, you know, like it happens a lot in the beginning and then it starts to thin out towards the middle and it's it's pretty

Nicole Keating 7:04

consistent. Yeah, that is a it's a consistent roll on you're right it does it's got a nice pace to

Ansel Burch 7:08

get you warmed up and then keeps you going Yep.

Nicole Keating 7:14

Um, so my smoking rule as soon as they start talking about the fourth dimension you gotta line up maybe because I was at the dispensary before this because I was like, I have not high enough to watch this Deseret to being drawn ah, which was also my edutainment, but literally it's very there's like no information about tesseracts Like the actual like creation of it it's just like some guy in some book about like he writes a whole bunch of philosophical concept conceptual essays

Ben Silverio 7:46

on infinity so well yes but

Nicole Keating 7:48

no the this the four dimensional cube was called the test right? Our listeners might not Oh, sorry if I maths.

Ansel Burch 7:59

I learned about it from Wrinkle in Time. That was Yeah.

Ben Silverio 8:03

Yeah, my smoking roll. I only have one of those is similar. Mine was take a hit every time they talk about space. Oh, yeah. I'll get very push your glasses up your nose type conversation.

Nicole Keating 8:21

I loved

Ansel Burch 8:22

it. I am here for every time we need to deep dive on a scientific concept to explain the made up concept of time travel of this

Nicole Keating 8:30

movie. They did it in Oh, what was the

Ansel Burch 8:33

best part of Star Trek every time? It's always like, Oh, yes. Well, the Einstein Rosenberg Bridge is the reason that we're flying past this star with these aliens on board.

Nicole Keating 8:44

I'm sure there's a Christopher Pike book called the tachyon web that's all about time travel. And I was a Christopher Pike fan girl when I was like 12 So that one blew my frickin mind. I was like, Is this real? How much of this is real science and how much of this is horror science? Um, my other drinking rule is cry when you're sad drink when you're when you're sad is so when

Ben Silverio 9:17

we validate your feelings.

Nicole Keating 9:19

When you cry

Ansel Burch 9:23

every time you're weeping every time you find yourself weeping. I was like, take a drink. Yes, it

Ben Silverio 9:30

happened a lot.

Nicole Keating 9:32

Doesn't mean very charming.

Ben Silverio 9:34

That's true. But then once you start crying It's just like crying

Nicole Keating 9:38

well yeah, you drink at the beginning of when you start crying and then you can then you can lay off however much you need to get through it.

Ben Silverio 9:47

My next rule is take a drink whenever Margaret causes destruction with a vehicle. Oh, very

Nicole Keating 9:53

good. Very good. runs over stuff a lot. Yeah, there's

Ben Silverio 9:57

a lot bumps in the stuff yeah. And I noticed it's a vehicle because it's not just in a car. No, there's other things too. Yes. Yeah. Where she fuck shit up.

Ansel Burch 10:08

She is a bad pilot of things.

Ben Silverio 10:10

It's true.

Nicole Keating 10:11

great at driving considering all the practice.

Ben Silverio 10:15

She did say she was teaching herself.

Nicole Keating 10:17

Yes, but you think you'd be a little better at it after? However, many times they've gone through this.

Ben Silverio 10:24

If we were in the 90s the bad joke here would be like women drivers of AI right? Well, oh,

Nicole Keating 10:31

I just assumed it was because she's, you know, kind of a spacey team. Sure. Yeah. She's thinking about four dimensions. She

Ansel Burch 10:37

said other shit to think about. Yeah.

Nicole Keating 10:39

Also, literally, there's no consequences. So, okay, it's

Ben Silverio 10:43

true. Yeah, one of the questions that I wrote down in my notes was Where the fuck are the cops in this town? Because they're just causing destruction everywhere.

Nicole Keating 10:51

Really good question. They never got arrested. They never got arrested. I think in one of the loops, somebody would have gone to jail at least. So

Ben Silverio 10:57

I was thinking the same Apparently not. Also, they're white.

Nicole Keating 11:02

Oh, yeah. I mean, well, no, the friend is black. And the girly legs at the beginning is Asian. So this may be a diverse town, but everybody else seems pretty white. Mm hmm. Yeah. Where are they supposed to be? California? I think like SoCal suburb of Los Angeles was sort of what I got.

Ansel Burch 11:19

Yeah, that makes sense.

Ben Silverio 11:20

Um, I remember seeing a there's a license plate. But I did not clock every town

Nicole Keating 11:29

America.

Ben Silverio 11:30

Yeah. All right.

Nicole Keating 11:32

I think it was maybe responding to the nice weather. And it was probably shot in a suburb of Los Angeles. Probably.

Ben Silverio 11:38

No, actually. It was shot in Alabama. Oh, was it really? Yeah, it was those poor people.

Ansel Burch 11:43

Oh, my

Nicole Keating 11:44

Oh, my Oh, my Oh, my Oh, my room. I have zero context for Alabama. other than it being the South. Maybe that's why everyone was white.

Ben Silverio 11:51

I got two more. All right. Next one. Take a drink for every reference to another time travel movie.

Nicole Keating 11:58

Oh, great. Great. Great. Great. Great. I love it. I love it. Oh, you're

Ben Silverio 12:02

watching time bandits again. Never get tired of it. And then my last rule is a shot rule. Nice. Take a shot when Margaret finally finds the puppy.

Nicole Keating 12:16

I was like the fucking dog bad.

Ben Silverio 12:20

This movie is very good at foreshadowing. Yeah, I'm like, I mean, I'm sure we'll get into it later. But like, yes. I figured out the twist pretty early. Like

Nicole Keating 12:35

her twist. Yeah, I sort of did. I wrote Oh, fuck, she's sick, isn't she? Followed by a series of about 20 cry face emojis. I'm really glad I didn't call it because I did not actually remember that Lev Grossman was magicians so I was thinking we're like Fault in Our Stars. We're going like The Fault in Our Stars direction. So I'm really glad that wasn't the twist. But so I did I did call that there was something with the with illness and the doctor not being like a boyfriend or something.

Ben Silverio 13:10

Yes, party people if you want to get the full spoilers and our thoughts on everything that we just talked about that we almost spoiled but didn't thankfully.

Ben Silverio 13:20

Watch the movie. Yeah, so you gotta you gotta tune in next week for our all of our thoughts and theories and comments when we return for our review of the map of tiny perfect things. Join us next time. Until then you can find us on the internet. I'm at @Bsilverio20 On Instagram, Twitter and hive.

Nicole Keating 13:39

I am @OGNicoleKeating the "i" in girl is a number one because I'm number one. And that's on all the things

Ansel Burch 13:46

you can find that in the show notes in case you're having trouble typing it. I am @Indecisionist on Twitter and @TheIndecisionist on Instagram.

Ben Silverio 13:55

You can join the conversation by using the hashtag time to party that's time the number to party

Ansel Burch 14:02

as well as time the number to party all spelled out special thanks to April Maralba for our podcast art and to Marlon Longid to have Marlon on the shakes for our amazing theme song. This has been an indecision list production visit indecisionist.com/time2party that's time the number two party for back episodes and transcripts of all of our episodes in season three and

Ben Silverio 14:23

you know while you are brushing up on how to read a map, because everyone has Google Maps or some sort of map program to tell you how to read map.

Nicole Keating 14:34

Google Maps is that Doubletree?

Speaker 2 14:41

The Great. The great Bart's The Lonely Island. It truly the voice of our era.

Ben Silverio 14:49

Me Sandberg is the voice of my era.

Ansel Burch 14:51

I could be Pete Davidson.

Ben Silverio 14:55

Oh, at least. At least it's not Yes while you're refreshing your memory on how to read a map I want to remind you to be excellent to each

Nicole Keating 15:05

other party on dudes

Ben Silverio 15:18

everyone should probably roll to Kennedy right

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