{"id":1274,"date":"2025-02-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:30:17","slug":"330-in-good-company-with-emily-st-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2025\/02\/24\/330-in-good-company-with-emily-st-james\/","title":{"rendered":"330 &#8211; In Good Company (with Emily St. James!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ingoodcompany-thob-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ingoodcompany-thob-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ingoodcompany-thob-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ingoodcompany-thob-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ingoodcompany-thob-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ingoodcompany-thob-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ingoodcompany-thob.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, the quaint economic anxieties of 20 years ago! We&#8217;re tackling 2004&#8217;s seriocomic tale of &#8220;what if your much younger boss slept with your newly adult daughter&#8221; and Paul Weitz film&nbsp;<em>In Good Company<\/em>, and writer Emily St. James returns to the show to help us unpack it. Modest lighthearted fare, the movie pits dad-mode Dennis Quaid opposite Topher Grace as advertising sales reps in the halcyon days of magazines. While it isn&#8217;t without its charms, the film was wedged into the very end of the season and didn&#8217;t make enough waves to earn much awards love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This episode, we talk about the film&#8217;s intergenerational dynamics and the then economic anxiety of young people taking all the boomers&#8217; jobs. We also talk about Scarlett Johansson&#8217;s high demand after&nbsp;<em>Lost in Translation<\/em>, the Oscar Original Song quality gap, and Clark Gregg joins our Six Timers Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics also include dad music needle drops,&nbsp;<em>The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants<\/em>, and what went down on the set of&nbsp;<em>The Brutalist<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zandoprojects.com\/books\/woodworking\/\">Preorder WOODWORKING by Emily St. James<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5368\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1274-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_330_In_Good_Company_-_with_Emily_St_James.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_330_In_Good_Company_-_with_Emily_St_James.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_330_In_Good_Company_-_with_Emily_St_James.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_330_In_Good_Company_-_with_Emily_St_James.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=1274-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_330_In_Good_Company_-_with_Emily_St_James.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_330_In_Good_Company_-_with_Emily_St_James.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the quaint economic anxieties of 20 years ago! We&#8217;re tackling 2004&#8217;s seriocomic tale of &#8220;what if your much younger boss slept with your newly adult daughter&#8221; and Paul Weitz film&nbsp;In Good Company, and writer Emily St. James returns to the show to help us unpack it. Modest lighthearted fare, the movie pits dad-mode Dennis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2025\/02\/24\/330-in-good-company-with-emily-st-james\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;330 &#8211; In Good Company (with Emily St. James!)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,1540,1833,1829,1831,1832,1112,3,6,1834,397,1830],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academy-awards","tag-clark-gregg","tag-david-byrne","tag-dennis-quaid","tag-frankie-faison","tag-malcolm-mcdowell","tag-marg-helgenberger","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-paul-weitz","tag-scarlett-johansson","tag-topher-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}