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[Crosspost] Hi reddit! We're Nick Kocher & Brian McElhaney. We wrote & directed PIZZA MOVIE, a stoner-comedy that premiered at SXSW and is out on Hulu today. You might also know us as the sketch-comedy duo BriTANicK on Youtube. Or as writers on SNL & 'Always Sunny In Philadelphia'. Ask us anything!

I organized an AMA/Q&A with Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, also known as the comedy-sketch group BriTANicK on Youtube. They've also been writers on Saturday Night Live and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. They've been featured on CollegeHumor, FunnyOrDie, and Cracked. They also co-wrote the upcoming horror-comedy Over Your Dead Body from director Jorma Taccone (The Lonely Island) and starring Jason Segel and Samara Weaving.

They co-wrote and co-directed the new Hulu stoner-comedy Pizza Movie that premiered at SXSW and is out today. It stars Gaten Matarazzo, Sean Giambrone, Lulu Wilson, Jack Martin, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Marcus Scribner, Caleb Hearon, Sarah Sherman, Justin Cooley, and Daniel Radcliffe.

It's live here now in /r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1sbby3w/hi_reddit_were_nick_kocher_and_brian_mcelhaney/

They'll be back at 6:15 PM ET today to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

Thank you :)

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOzF87PFGnw

Synopsis:

A group of college students go downstairs to their dorm lobby to get a delivery pizza. There’s only one issue: They’re insanely high on a home-made drug, turning their simple journey down two sets of stairs into a mind-bendingly transformative quest.

Their verification photos:

https://i.imgur.com/Gb6B4ms.jpeg

u/BunyipPouch — 10 hours ago

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[Crosspost] Hi reddit! We're Nick Kocher & Brian McElhaney. We wrote & directed PIZZA MOVIE, a stoner-comedy that premiered at SXSW and is out on Hulu today. You might also know us as the sketch-comedy duo BriTANicK on Youtube. Or as writers on SNL & 'Always Sunny In Philadelphia'. Ask us anything!

It's live here now in /r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1sbby3w/hi_reddit_were_nick_kocher_and_brian_mcelhaney/

They'll be back at 6:15 PM ET today to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

Thank you :)

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOzF87PFGnw

Synopsis:

Their verification photos:

https://i.imgur.com/Gb6B4ms.jpeg

u/BunyipPouch — 10 hours ago

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Crosspost from r/AskHistorians: What motivated Confederate soldiers to fight? What role did emotion play in their military service? How did emotions compel southern men to break cultural norms? I’m Dr. Joshua R. Shiver, and I wrote a book on the emotional motivations of Confederate soldiers. AMA!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1sbdh44/what_motivated_confederate_soldiers_to_fight_what/

>I’m here to talk about my new book War Fought and Felt: The Emotional Motivations of Confederate Soldiers.

>Here’s my blurb: "War Fought and Felt advances our grasp of the links between masculinity, emotion, and relationships during the American Civil War. It is the first broadly researched, multidisciplinary, and statistically supported approach to understanding the pivotal role of emotions in the everyday lives of Confederate soldiers. Using a source base of more than 1,790 letters and diaries from two hundred Confederate soldiers from North Carolina and Alabama, it builds upon traditional sociocultural and ideological arguments for why Confederate soldiers fought. Drawing on history, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and neuroscience, it underscores the necessity of examining primal emotions when looking to understand soldiers’ motivations. It argues that the heightened emotions felt by these soldiers drove them to suffer, fight, desert, and willingly die.

>I examine the vital role of emotions within the context of soldiers’ relationships with their parents, children, wives, sweethearts, and comrades. These relationships and the emotions they engendered defined Confederate soldiers’ firsthand experiences of war and ultimately redefined the Confederate cause itself. A war that began steeped in ideology ended, for the soldiers, as one fought for the protection and future of one’s loved ones. I argue that the emotionally overwhelming nature of the war forced a tectonic shift in American masculinity in which the prewar emphasis on stoic individualism gave way to an outpouring of emotional expression and mutual interdependence. As a result, Confederate soldiers pragmatically embraced emotional and relational norms that were previously considered taboo.

>By placing emotion alongside traditional explanations for motivation, I hope to shed new light on a new area of research that promises to promote a deeper understanding of why the American Civil War was one of the bloodiest, most emotionally influential, and world-changing events of the last two centuries."

>I am open to other questions about the war and its connection to human emotions.

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u/dhowlett1692 — 7 hours ago

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I’m Constance Grady, a senior correspondent on the culture team at Vox. My most recent piece looks at what we lose when we erase ugliness and embrace looksmaxxing and unrealistic beauty standards in media. AMA!

Hi Reddit, I’m Constance Grady, a senior correspondent at Vox! You may have read my piece about how Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch taught a generation of young people what was desirable, or why Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a million times edgier than Emerald Fennell’s. But my latest reporting looks at how memoirists are pushing back against an alarming moment that we’re in — a moment of cultural fascination with looksmaxxers.

That too-online community, made up mostly of men who claim to do things like hit themselves in the face with hammers for a stronger jawline and snort meth for leaner bodies, has become the object of shocked trend pieces and news coverage.

Looksmaxxers are fascinating in part because their motivations are so understandable. They have observed the simple fact that in our culture, life is easier for people who are beautiful, and they have made their plans accordingly, self-mutilation and hard drugs and all. The calculus feels both horrifying and comprehensible, which is why I found it so startling and exciting to find people moving in the other direction in the form of two new memoirs by authors who both call themselves ugly and have no plans to change their appearances.

“I am an ugly woman,” begins journalist Stephanie Fairyington in Ugly, forthcoming in May. “At fourteen I learned fourteen times over that I’m ugly,” writes the poet and artist Moshtari Hilal in Ugliness, published last year.

To call someone ugly feels so malicious, so aggressive. But these memoirists and the looksmaxxers appear to agree on at least one thing: People really are treated badly by the world if they are not as conventionally attractive as their peers.

To deny someone the language to name their own reality feels perverse. And yet ugly feels like such a cruel word. The provocative and never-quite-answered question of these memoirs is whether turning it on yourself can become an act of self-love.

What do you think? Should we be embracing ugly?

Proof: https://bsky.app/profile/constancegrady.bsky.social/post/3mijxemnqds2r

Gift link: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/482373/ugliness-moshtari-hilal-ugly-stephanie-fairyington?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IkN1RXE2NGdhaEciLCJwIjoiL3RoZS1oaWdobGlnaHQvNDgyMzczL3VnbGluZXNzLW1vc2h0YXJpLWhpbGFsLXVnbHktc3RlcGhhbmllLWZhaXJ5aW5ndG9uIiwiZXhwIjoxNzc2NDQwMjM5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzUyMzA2Mzl9.beuswAg77Rpu8upIMajH-rPqZvfpt73TDBhz4nQaHWY&utm_medium=gift-link

u/vox — 6 hours ago