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I still love the spirit of Musical Monday but maybe we could figure out how to combine the two?

So since we were talking about Clueless in last week's episode I was wondering if anyone would be interested in doing an old favorite non musical movie once or twice a month? Like Musical Monday but instead we would watch a film that is a classic/ old favorite/ childhood obsession ?

There's a music video at the very end?

I'm usually ok with jokes that toe the line except for rape jokes. I'm sure you didn't mean to but it's upsetting to me as someone who has multiple people in their life who are sexual assault survivors. I honestly do not know a SINGLE woman ( I include myself in this) who has not been assaulted or sexually harassed and made to feel unsafe. I get that the topic of this movie is insane but ... Just a heads up?

Me either but it's like engrained in my DNA. I even remember having to wait to the end of the tape for the music video!

I'm so excited for the movie this week! The MovieBitches did a retro review of it and I've been dying to see what you guys would think of it.

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 am trash and love to hate watch the Teen Mom franchise and one of the couples on there are also stepsiblings. They were dating before their parents though? Thankfully said parents are divorced now. It's still super weird.

Ok so what exactly was the plan for Sam? They had no idea when she would come back ( or even if she would but let's assume she would). She's going to have missed a significant amount of time in the world. How is she going to be able to go back out there like nothing has changed? Because by the time she comes back unless they fake a second accident or trauma people are going to be less forgiving of her odd behavior. Say she was gone for a year from say 2006 to 2007 when the movie came out. She missed a LOT. The death of Steve Irwin, Dick Cheney shooting a guy in the fucking FACE and that man then APOLOGIZING TO HIM,the sentencing/ execution of Saddam Hussein, we learned what a monster Mel Gibson is , Oprah yelled at James Frey for A Million Little Pieces, fucking FACEBOOK become open to us mere non collegiate plebs! Just image how confused she's going to be when she finds out Pluto isn't a planet!! That's just culture stuff. What about her academics? She's going to struggle with keeping up because she hasn't been to school in a year. Plus the psychological toll of your parents caring more about wanting to fuck using your body then getting you back or grieving you... Not to mention she's going to have trouble connecting with her friends because she's missed out on vital in group dynamics. I shudder to think about what would happen if her mom got her into college then she came back. One video message isn't going to cut it.

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! "

It's just so weird hearing Joel Kim Booster without Nicole Byer.

I'm sure you didn't mean it this way but it sounds like want momdaughter to drug and rape her dadhusband?

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!

I am kind of fascinated by this trend in porn. I loved reading Mary Roch's book Boink on sex and sexual science and would honestly love to read a study on 1. Trends in porn and 2. Why THIS trend specifically? Is it because that now there in the are billions of choices in porn we are desensitized by what was once thrilling sexually and now have to tread into more taboo ( but still on the surface "ok" vanilla sex with people who technically share only familial relationships not actually blood relatives. Not that it's ok in real life but the situation is more palatable?) ? Or is it something that was kind of a thing that porn makers then decided this is the hot new trend like a fashion magazine might do? Either way I need ANSWERS damnit! If only to put my confused mind to rest.

A podcast I love on Love After Lockup has a new episode out today and they actually mentioned me for posting something so that made me feel good. I think I might watch some tv? I guess I just figured I should be doing something. But honestly I don't really feel like much activity.

So sad news. I just got home from a vet checkup for my darling cat Albus and sadly I had to put him down today. He had two emergency urinary tract blockage surgeries two weeks ago and a new one formed . They were going to keep forming . The vet said I did everything I could and after crying for nearly two hours it's over. I only had him for two years but Ioved him enough for two lifetimes. I still have his dad Godric and maybe in the fall I might go back to his breeder because she has another cat that needs to be placed and gets picked on like Godric did. I'm actually feeling better now ( it might be the migraine meds) but I was wondering what you guys turn to that lifts your spirits besides this podcast? Albus in case anyone wanted to see him being silly:

Truly a hero

I want a wacky comedy of them trying to kill him off Coyote style with like extra slippery soap and shit.

The costumer on this movie needs to be out in that Canadian field with the Little Italy Hair and Makeup team. That corset ! Ugh

#feminism #glassceiling am I right?

This has NOTHING to do with Van Hesling other than being a total train wreck but Lori Loughlin signed Rad memorabilia on her way to fucking court. It needed to be shared http://dlisted.com/2019/04/03/lori-loughlin-signed-autographs-and-posed-for-pictures-in-advance-of-her-operation-varsity-blues-court-appearance/#more-332060

I could only watch the Streisand version with you guys. I never get past 20 minutes in. It's just so ... 70's and not Judy Garland. I love me some Bab's but I want to make everyone shower in this movie.

The happy squeal that came out of me right now! I've wanted to see this version for forever. Can't wait! Also welcome back!

I just wanted to say how much I love having you on here and I'm going to miss you a lot. Please let yourself heal and take all the time you need to take care of yourself! If there's anything I can do to help you get through this let me know. I have been through some shitty health times and I understand how isolating it can be. We will be here for you when you get back! Also I truly had such a fun time watching this with you. It was really fun and I actually really liked this movie. You made it all the more enjoyable. If you ever wanted to get in touch don't hesitate to ask I can get you my email address or something. Is that presumptuous?