·24· While You Were Sleeping

“While you were sleeping, on your brother I was creeping”

Those are just some of the lines from an epically bad rap, written by Valerie and inspired by the 1995 film While You Were Sleeping.

If you’d like to hear more of that rap, start getting her drunk like right now.

If you’d like to hear special guest Heather Hooks delight the ever-loving shit out of us, start listening like RIGHT NOW.

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·23· Crank


Chev Chelios may never be a bride. He may never land the DeLauer Diamond or Gulden’s Mustard accounts. Chev may never stand on the pitcher’s mound of a high school baseball field waiting to be kissed in front of the entire student body. Chev Chelios may never do any of these things thanks to that back-stabbing bitch, Ricky Verona. Oh, and also, Chev may die or something, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I don’t think they’ll be friends again. Join Helen and Valerie as they are joined by ‘The Matts’ [both of them!] for a head scratching look inside “the other kind of date movie”. Hint, it’s a light flow day.

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·22· Bridget Jones’s Baby

What is there to say about Bridget Jones that we haven’t already said? It looks like a lot. Please join us for our last over-long discussion of our fierce friend. 
2016’s Baby has taken full advantage of its generous gestation period and presents a noticeably grown-up film while still offering moments of pleasant predictability. 

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·21· Jane Eyre

A lot has changed since Jane Eyre: An Autobiography was first published. Foremost, women are less likely to publish work under a man’s name for fear of facing discrimination (although I imagine this still occurs).

But one thing has not changed, women still love men who are hiding other women in their attics. <— definitely not true. I made that up.

This podcast, while “small and plain” is still very spirited and not actually small at all (read: too long).

Reader, we have a lot to say about the 2011 Jane Eyre.

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·20· Ghostbusters (2016)

If you like listening to or haven’t listened to enough tendentious podcasts about the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot—then this episode is for you. 
Two sisters who’ve never been criticized for being “too funny” discuss a film that’s actually been criticized for being “too funny”. 

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·19· Jem and the Holograms

Nostalgia kills: a talking point for a lot of current issues but also an appropriate sentiment for episode 19: Jem and the Holograms (2015).
Buttholes like me (Valerie) who were so precious about a cartoon they watched while still sporting their milk teeth, sized this film up and cut it down—sight unseen. My generation’s refusal to embrace this re-imagining shut Jem out of the theater after just two weeks. Once I decided not to see it I never thought about it again, but that was not the case for many people who vilified talented director Jon M. Chu and spewed unjustifiable hatred and vitriol in all corners of the internet.

Fortunately I pulled my head out of my ass long enough to look around and see a path less followed. Saved was I from sitting on a porch with Clint Eastwood, smoking that wacky “when I was a kid” pipe—and I watched Jem and the Holograms.

—Guys, it was truly, truly, truly outrageous—

We hope you’ll watch it too (at minimum listen to the soundtrack). This film is chock full of inspiring female power and it rocks too. Yeah, it’s different…it’s been repackaged for a new audience. Don’t we want to share our hero Jem with tomorrow’s female rebels?

More importantly we want a sequel and we need your help! Tell Jon M. Chu, tell Hasbro, tell your friends, tell my friends, use the hashtag #wearethemisfits

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