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Can I flag everyone's post for offensive content if they have that baby picture in it?

Nikki Reed looks SO uncomfortable (kind of the same expressions I made watching parts of thirteen...like wtf is this)

Ok so my grandmother died two years after my mom did in an insane car accident on her way to pick me up. I had to get a one time prescription for Valium to make it through the service. If I hadn't I wouldn't have been able to keep it together enough to sit through it. HOWEVER if a friend asked me to get high at her wake or my mom's wake I would have murdered them and conveniently gotten rid of the body at the funeral home or cemetery. This girl's friends were trash. Also she had to be on God knows how many meds for her recently almost killed broken body!

The one when the baby caresses Nikki Reed's face makes me laugh so hard

Did someone say more? You're welcome.

I think if this podcast and especially this movie has taught us anything, it is that screenwriters are perverts.

In the original story Mr. Knightly (the Paul Rudd character) is Emma's sister's brother-in-law, so there's even less of a relation there than if they had been two people who's parents were married. I know that's like the only way to basically like modernize that kind of thing, especially since they cut out any siblings from Cher's family, but it feels like a thing they didn't have to mention as many times as they do lol.

I think it all stemmed from the Greg/Marcia weirdness on The Brady Bunch!

Like legit I don't get the sexual taboo desire of it all and I'm not sure I ever will, but like that movie I watched and then even this instance you can kinda see how it happens. But you're so right it does still seem so weird. It's like in Clueless too! Cher and Josh used to be step siblings but then their parents divorced and yet she still refers to him as her step brother. THEN THEY END UP TOGETHER! You never like notice that shit at first because you just want Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd together and then you get older and you think about all of that shit, like also the fact that he's definitely at least 19 and she's 16 and it's definitely even weirder lol.

This is fascinating and I would love to hear your wife's thoughts on this movie! I also kind of want to just pick her brain on a bunch of stuff because SHE sounds like she's doing awesome stuff. hearing there's a French film about cousins makes me think of the Arrested Development cousin film Les Cousins Dangereux As a weirdo who is very interested in various royal families and their history I know that incest via things like cousins and marrying aunts/uncles to their nephews and nieces was a common practice for most of history. It's not as extreme as in Ancient Egypt under Ptolemaic dynasty. They practiced sibling marriage when they took over Egypt. Poor Cleopatra got stuck with 2 dumbass idiot brothers that she had to get rid of . The poster child for Inbreeding Bad ! Has got to be Charles II of Spain. He was from the Spanish line of the Habsburgs ( a family famous for intermarriage). He was so fucked up that when Marie Louise d'Orleans found out she had to marry him and her uncle Louis XIV said he could not have done more for his own daughter she is reported to have replied " You could have done more for your niece! "

My wife studied kink as part of her PhD - her take when I mentioned this the other day was that for mainstream vanilla porn, incest is essentially one of the last sort-of-legal taboos. And since the porn is clearly fake (in the sense that the various actors are obviously NOT related), it's a guilt-free turn on for the viewer, I guess? All of the talk in the podcast and elsewhere about this movie being a French production reminded me of films like Cousin, Cousine (remade in the US as "Cousins" with Ted Danson), which explored the much more common idea of first cousins becoming partners. A practice that was very common, especially when women essentially had no real legal rights, in order to ensure that wealth stayed within wealthy families. I'm also reminded of a German film from a few years ago called Transfer, in which poor African immigrants essentially rent out their bodies for the use of wealthy white Europeans during the day. Kind of like Get Out, but more of a dystopian comment on immigration and entrenched European racism than slavery per se, if memory serves. Well worth checking out if you get the chance.

well there goes any chance of me ever sleeping again

I didn't realize the Child's Play reboot was out already.

Honestly they could have made Josh the son of his law firm partner or something and it would have been fine.

THANK YOU !! I have ALWAYS been weirded out by the Cher/ Josh storyline. As a kid I assumed I misheard and he couldn't possibly be her stepbrother. I get it Paul Rudd is an eternal snack that never ages but it's just so uncomfortable. Add in the age thing and it just gets grosser. Can you imagine how awkward it would be to go on a double date with them or just casually ask how they met their partner? " we met when it parents got married " is just going to kill the night. You can't come back from that conversation.

I haven't listened to the ep yet, but I might be with you on this. And I'm totally with you on the honesty/trustworthiness bit. Dobbs goes mad, not because he's greedy, but because his inability to trust leads to mad conspiracy theories about what the others are up to, likely based on his own ideas of what he'd do if he were greedy. I didn't not enjoy this one, but I don't think I find it that great. Everything is so blatantly explained and foreshadowed, that it feels a bit empty to me. But I do see its influence. And I liked the performances in it, generally.

I might not chime in too much on this film since I'm probably going to be more down on it than everyone else, but I'm halfway through the podcast and Amy and Paul's interpretation of parts of it baffles me. For one thing, they're talking about how the movie is about greed, and about how Dobbs not taking all of McCormick's money doesn't seem to make sense. Well, the answer is that the film isn't really about greed. Amy and Paul mentioned how Howard very heavy-handedly spells out the plot of the movie early on in the saloon, but they've missed when Howard very heavy-handedly spells out the theme of the movie later on: honesty vs trustworthiness. Dobbs is an honest man, and Howard is not (or so he says). But Howard is a trustworthy man, and Dobbs is not. Dobbs only takes the money he's owed because of his honesty, and he never schemes to screw the others out of their money. He does what he does because he's incapable of trusting the others, and therefore unable to be trusted himself. But he remains honest, telling Curtin exactly what was going to happen if he fell asleep. Finally, the bandits are neither honest nor trustworthy, and the film posits that Dobbs is closer in character to them than to Howard. I would argue that greed is only manifested in the idea of not wanting to lose what one has worked for, which is not greed so much as a lack of charity, or a warped sense of Ayn Randian justice. (Okay, okay, maybe "Ayn Randian justice" does count as greed, but hopefully you can see my point.) Again, part of why I don't like the film is that this is so heavy-handed and overly simplistic, so I was shocked that Amy and Paul seemed to read it differently.

This just reminded me that I watched this Swedish movie on Netflix called "Kiss Me" or "Kyss Mig" about two adult women who are about to become step sisters and they end up falling in love with each other. It's definitely painted as "oh this isn't right" the whole time but, no spoilers I promise, it's really well told and extremely beautiful to watch. Or it could be another Adore situation where I'm totally fine watching something and everyone else is like wtf that's creepy lmao. (Not that I watch that kind of porn that's indeed way gross and I'm not into that lol.)

Timon and Pumba eat bugs and it's just... Ew! Yucky!

we're not talking enough about the creepy CGI baby apparently they considered an animatronic doll but it was even creepier http://entertainment.time.com/2013/11/05/this-terrifying-animatronic-baby-freaked-out-the-cast-and-crew-of-twilight/

Maybe she just really loves Arbys.

the stitcher homepage shows me the stupidest shit. i miss santa man

I’m so glad Engineer Devon tipped me off to the “Ads Version Hollywood Handbook”. No more juggling apps, thanks Devon! Although this was perhaps the worst possible timing, if the boys are being forced to abandon their hilarious Santa Man/Moriarty/Elf Giles characters. Wait, I misspoke, Kevin isn’t one of The Boys...or is he? Hell, Bang Rodgman is practically one of the boys at this point. Anyways, I hit the skip forward and backward buttons just like you told me and the episode sounded like shit. I dunno how many more phones I can buy if you’re gonna keep making episodes like this.