HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Donnie Darko (2001) (Feat. Christine Rogers)

We're back! It's a Chanukah miracle! Hallmark released a Chanukah Time Travel Romance movie with gay women in it, a move seemingly designed to get us back on the mic again. We talk about this (spoiler alert) good and very fun movie, spend a hot second on what Chanukah means to us in this particular moment in time, and somehow still have time to google "Is Shia Lebeouf Jewish?" You're welcome for this late Chanukah, early Christmas present.

Happy Wednesday one and all, and welcome back to Hallmark land, where usually the tradeoff for some light misogyny and predictable dialogue is a straightforward romance ending with a beautifully chaste kiss. But alas, just when you think they'll zig, they zag. Or really, I guess the 10th time you think they'll zig, they zag. So join us as we try to parse through all the romances in this late, great film (you'll get that later) and also do some Terminator world building before going down quite the rabbit hole trying to figure out why this movie couldn't handle an attractive lady simply doing her job. Oh, also, Helena carves out an entire section of the podcast to discuss what the movie got right and wrong about living in Midcoast Maine. Get excited. Also, get excited about us generally and like and subscribe and all that. Thanks. 

Eyy! We’re walkin’ here! This week, we take you to the magical land of Queens, New Yawk, a fictional place where the Northern Lights are often visible and you can talk to your long-dead dad—but only if it’s about sports! Tune in to learn about how Dennis Quaid decided to spend his COVID quarantine (whatever you’re imagining, we guarantee you’re wrong!) and hear us discuss the rampant copaganda that pretty much ruined this one for us. Also, find out if Paige knows what baseball is! Let’s go Mets! If you’d like to take US out to the ballgame, you can let us know by rating, reviewing and/or subscribing!

Do you like this podcast but wish we would dig deeper and answer life's major questions, such as: Do Legos have free will? And what are the Gender Politics of Legos? And, most importantly, will Paige ever stop trying to explain the plot of Happy Feet? Well then, this is the episode for you. Luckily, for this journey, we are joined by friend, lawyer, and Lego enthusiast, Max Reinhardt! Listen in to hear about an unnecessary sequel with some fun time travel reference points and inconsistent plot devices.  Follow Max's fun food-inside-other-foods instagram @foodie_inside_jokes and his weekly Spotify playlist here.  Also, rate, review, and subscribe to us.

Happy 2023 timesluts! Welcome to a new year, a fresh start where are you finally free of Christmas magic and time loops that only come in packs of 12. We celebrate this clean slate with a new movie centered on the very modern technology of the cassette player. You know, that thing everyone is still apparently using in 2022 like it's no big deal. Spotify, who? Well, at least Danny Glover is here too.  Once you've pressed pause, or stop, or whatever the button is on cassette players, you can then find the rate, review, subscribe buttons. They exist if you believe in the power of the mix-tape hard enough. 

Merry end of Christmas season to you and yours! We hope you're enjoying the weird period of life between Christmas and New Year's right now and that no one's making you work too hard. We wrap up our Christmas time travel romance season this year with an ABC Family classic starring people who were relevant 10-20 years before this movie came out! This is our second "12 Days of Christmas" song themed time loop movie of the cycle, so its like...are we in a time loop now? Have the loopers become the loopees? And, if we're not stuck in a time loop, why does Paige keep bringing up the TV show, Suits?  Now we move on to the part of the loop where we ask you to rate, review, subscribe, etc. 

What are you willing to risk for one more espresso/ex-presso kiss? This is the big philosophical question at the heart of this week's podcast as we discuss yet another Hallmark time travel romance Christmas spectacular, Just in Time for Christmas. Some other less important questions that we try to answer for you: Does Christopher Lloyd belong on Rachel McAdams Court of Time Travel Icons? Is William Shatner good at acting? Why do people in these movies keep insisting people who think they have head injuries should go to sleep? And will Hallmark ever let a woman get over a man? Grab some hot cocoa and tune in to find out.  While waiting for the cocoa to get hot and then slightly cool down, take a moment to rate, review, subscribe, etc. 

On the Third Day of Thanksgiving Weekend, this podcast gave to me: 2 Blonde Love Interests, 1 Molly Shannon, and a USA network original Christmas time-travel movie. Did you like that? One of us worked very hard on it to make up for the terrible audio-quality on this podcast episode, recorded from our respective parents' houses on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, when every podcast-host is at their most potato-y. We hope you GOBBLE this up, anyway. Also, we got got, and he does not end up with either of the identical blonde love interests. Or Molly Shannon! (Paige, and only Paige, was really rooting for that.) We discuss all of this as well as ya know, capitalism and how the idea of nuclear family takes away from us caring for our community at large, and we also find time to take a trip down memory lane to name a bunch of USA original shows that may or may not have existed during our lifetime. Enjoy!  Not that we really care, because potatoes don't care about these sorts of things, but if you want to rate, review, subscribe, etc, you can. 

It's the most wonderful time of the year, folks! The time where we get to prove to you we can go even more niche in our sub-genre and do only CHRISTMAS time-travel romance movies. Yes, we still have more of these even three years in. And while today's movie does not have an original plot,  a great romance, or even believable eyebrows, it does have the BEST title of a film we have encountered to date. Also, it has both Carrie Fisher (yes, THAT Carrie Fisher) and Carson Kressley in it, as well as potentially decent politics for a Hallmark movie. So buckle up kids, and get ready to learn some lessons about greed or being alone or something.  Also, get in the holiday spirit and be nice to us specifically by rating, reviewing, subscribing. 

Happy Halloween timesluts! To celebrate this spoooooky season we are watching this spoooooky movie with spooooky friend of the pod, Christine Rogers. We share all our spooooky thoughts about that spooooky Jake Gyllenhaal and his spooooky rabbit friend. We also spend way too long discussing all the spooooky songs that were banned after spoooooky 9/11 happened and how Christine and her spooooky husband became spooooky boyfriend and spooooky girlfriend via text message because high school romance is truly the spoooookiest thing of them all. Give us a spoooooky rating or spooooky review and then spoooookily subscribe.