Falling in Love Montage

We’re Mad-Ern-Hel, and we’re not going to take [not having covered Death Becomes Her] anymore!

Yes, the queens of youth and beauty you know and tolerate are finally tackling the queens of youth and beauty you know and love, and we (re)watched 1992’s Death Becomes Her, in which Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn seriously put at least one of the Fs in “BFF.”

A couple of corrections:
– Zelda from Pet Sematary has spinal meningitis, not scoliosis.
– We talk briefly about “Kevin Williams” style dialog. We are actually referring to Kevin Williamson, creator of Dawson’s Creek and writer of Scream.

We don’t have a guest this time, but we give massive shout-outs to our sweethearts Ryan and Ariel, who got married last week. If you click all of these links, you’ll find all of Ryan’s many shows:
http://flyingmachine.network/divisiveissues
http://flyingmachine.network/oops_politics
http://frondsradio.com/
http://wgirny.libsyn.com/

We’ve assembled the team, we’ve got the know-how, we’ve rented the disc from Redbox, and we’re ready to blow this thing wide open.

Fearless leader of the Flying Machine network and Ocean’s [Numeral] fanboy Malcolm Nygard is back to talk with us about the 2018 female-fronted heist movie and whether or not (Danny Ocean’s) sisters are really doin’ it for themselves. And by “doin’,” I mean stealing, and by “it,” I mean tens of millions of dollars’ worth of jewels.

You can hear more from Malcolm on the Flying Machine Content Channel.

What do Batman, E from Entourage, Rachel Green, Black Widow, the Hangover guy, Officer Hopps, the Mac, and Academy Award-winning actor Jennifer Connelly have in common?
They are all in this movie that we’re just not that into, spoilers! ?

The long-anticipated cross-over episode is here! Okay, it’s not technically a cross-over, maybe it’s just an episode we’ve been dying* to do with a guest we’ve been dying to have.

Lawrence Kasdan’s 1999 Mumford offers no exception to deception and this entire character-driven comedy/drama/maybe chick-flick(?) hinges on one man’s lie. Here to help us interrogate this movie is the mayor of Liar City and my** best friend, Brian Flanagan.

Prepare for more conflict in the episode than the movie. Sisters Helen and Valerie, wait for it, have strong and different opinions about this film!?!?! WHAT!?!?!

Helen describes Dr. Mumford as a “lovable fraud” and Valerie applauds him for demonstrating that generally, the nicest thing you can do for someone is listen to them.

☝?That’s a suggestion folks, you should listen to us ?

*No podcasters actually died during or for this episode
** Who’s that girl? It’s Jess Valerie!

Are you looking for ? Binder Boys with Helen LaStaron Best Acquaintances?

Two years ago we talked about Dirty Dancing.
One year ago a dear listener emailed us to request we cover Dirty Dancing’s 2004 sequel.
And just one week ago we finally watched Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and got together to talk about it.
This is that talk. You’ll be happy to know — it’s less than four hours.
Beloved friend/superfan/Jane Austen correspondent Tracy Tanoff joins us for the not-so-heavily contested debate of whether Havana Nights should get the illustrious Houseman Trophy ? — and if we should rename it the “Miller Trophy,” after our Havana heroine Katey Miller (spoiler-hint: yeah nah).

We truly missed you and to prove it, we are serenading you with these handpicked* 21 ABBA songs. Podcast legend and Ghost of Girlfriends Past survivor, Nick Wood, joins us to dish and dance and jive. Seriously guys, we were having the time of our lives. Dig in, you dancing queen!

*by Catherine Johnson

? Hear more from Nick at Stranger Stillpodcast & Limited Cell: A Generational Hanna-Barbera review show