Premature (feat. Michael Jalkio)

Published: March 31, 2021, noon

Hey time sluts, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we have another engaging and wonderful guest this week. If you listened to the Peggy Sue Got Married episode, you'll know him as the smartest person who went to Paige's high school...who is not the smartest person she knows now. Everyone else will just know him as Michael Jalkio, Iron Man triathlete, Amazon coder, and, most importantly for this episode, former high school boy. The bad news is that spoiler alert: this movie, Premature, is truly terrible. But less-bad news: it is terrible in so many ways that are worth talking about and also leads Paige and Michael on a trip down memory lane that gets real fun and deep. 

More bad news: There is a gross scene in this movie that fetishizes Asian sex workers. We are seeing the dire effects of this kind of representation right now in the world, so we are using this terrible scene as extra motivation to donate money to Red Canary Song, a grassroots collective of Asian and migrant sex workers, and we encourage all our listeners to do the same if they are able. If the hyperlink above does not work, their website is www.redcanarysong.net.

Also, Michael says we need a website, to which we pointed out we have a very unsuccessful Twitter, so maybe follow us on Twitter at @aftertimepod and it will encourage us to expand our internet presence?