Episode 78 - Unnis Movie Night - Il Mare

**Lynn** (0:10)
This is Unnis on Oppas A Fan Podcast, where we talk about Korean dramas and sometimes Korean movies, with special attention to the leading men of Kdramas, also known as our Kdrama boyfriends, also known as Oppas.

**Susie** (0:23)
And we are your metaphorical big sisters, aka Unnis. I am Susie.

**Lynn** (0:29)
And I am Lynn. And before we start talking about all things Korean screeny, we like to take a moment at the beginning of the episode to give thanks to someone or something that has allowed us to be here today to make an episode for you. So Susie, in this episode, to whom would you like to say Jal Meogisseubnida?

**Susie** (0:48)
I would like to thank Public Transportation.
And as somebody who does not actively drive at any point, a saving grace, Public Transportation, it allows you to go places, a lot of places if you have a robust one in your city or town or whatever. I just want to thank those who operate it, those who clean it. Just, their job is to keep these things running. Scheduling must be a nightmare. I don't know how people schedule buses when there's so many lines and so many places they need to go, and then so many almost same direction, but not really same direction.

**Lynn** (1:47)
Right, right.

**Susie** (1:48)
Like, there will be three different buses that, like, will end up in the same place, but have, like, different routes to get there. So kudos to those who map out those things, like, amazing to, like, capture, like, as much of the, like, geographical area that you can, so different people that have different needs to get places can get to their places. So I just want to say thank you for the existence of public transportation.
I sometimes do a side gig as a stage manager, so like, I do work, like, different places, and oftentimes I have to rely on public transportation, and I just would not be able to do certain things without it, for sure. So thank you, public transportation, that is well maintained and run relatively most of the time smoothly.
You can't have it all, it's not, we're not Japan, okay, the US. So I'm just thankful when things are like one on time, or reasonably sort of space time wise, so like in the middle of the night, you're not waiting like 30 minutes for a train kind of thing, but more like every seven minutes, like that's fine, I can wait seven minutes. Yeah. So thank you, Public Transit Station for allowing me to do the things I want to do. Yeah.

**Lynn** (3:29)
And you live in an area where there's, I mean, I would say for the US, you live in maybe the best public transit area.
You know, New York is good if you're in like Manhattan, and to some extent in the outer boroughs. But yeah, I mean, that's just not a thing in a lot of US cities, you know? I lived in Nashville for 11 years, and I never once took public transit, not because I wasn't interested in it, but it was just a nightmare. Like, you know, it's all buses, there's no like rail of any kind. And yeah, you know, I looked into it, where I lived was a couple miles, not too far from the airport. But for me to take the bus into the airport, I had to go all the way into downtown and then get on another bus.
So what would be like a 15-minute drive was like a two-hour bus journey, which like pretty much de-incentivizes trying to use public transit at that point. So, yeah, yeah, so, yay, yay, all the people who make it. I mean, though, talking about thankless jobs, the people who have to clean the train cars and all that, goodness, yikes. Yeah, thank you.

**Susie** (4:57)
Sometimes some craziness does happen.

**Lynn** (4:59)
Boy, oh, for sure. On them trains.

**Susie** (5:04)
Yeah.

**Lynn** (5:06)
Well, I want to thank Harney and Sons Tea. It is a real-

**Susie** (5:14)
Delightful.

**Lynn** (5:14)
Fancy tea brand. I think they're based in the UK. And my friend KG, who I've talked about before on this podcast, and my aunt, are both big Harney and Sons tea. It's a good tea to give as a gift for tea lovers because it's real expensive.
So for me, who is notoriously cheap, I'm never going to pay $30 for a pound of loose tea. That is outrageous. But I can't remember if I've talked on the podcast about our Amish salvage store. I feel like I have talked about it in passing.

**Susie** (5:54)
You have mentioned it.