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Romancing the Pod

Romancing the Pod - Michael Randolph, Paige Wesley, Todd Schlosser

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Each week Mikey, Paige, and Todd review a romantic movie and break down the good, the bad, and the funny. Give it a listen, we’ll have you at hello.
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"Passion has a price." This week's hottest movie is... The Next 365 Days. Join the gang while we break down a movie so wild that it has brooding gangsters, steamy love triangles, luxury yachts, and intense beach scenes. This 365 is the least fun, least sexy, and has the least plot out of all the 365 movies. But the episode is just as wild as our pr…
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"This isn't what it looks like." This week's hottest movie is... Anyone But You from 2023. Directed by the brilliant Will Gluck, this romantic comedy is a modern twist on 'Much Ado About Nothing,'This movie has everything: an awkward destination wedding in Australia, fake relationships, helicopter parents, and actual helicopters. Grab your popcorn …
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"I just want people to be who they are... I'm not a monster" This weeks hottest movie is Anything's Possible. This movie has everything: heartwarming friendships, tender romance, a fierce high school debate, trans representation, a villain who was once a best friend best friend, and a subplot involving viral Reddit posts. This movie is so lovely th…
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"She's back... Looking as gorgeous and outrageous as ever in a brand new frock." Join the gang this week while we venture to the outback on a pilgrimage through the desert. Will Todd fall in love with this pre Too Wong Foo Drag Queen masterpiece? Will Paige fall in love with at least 1 "look" in this movie? Will they both which they we also ride Pr…
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"A movie about empowering women (the hot ones)" Join the gang this week as we break down a movie so steeped in magical realism that Todd's wild theory (from the episode) actually seems somewhat plausible. This movie has everything... the campiest version of high school ever put on screen, Josie spiraling out about what her future will become, and t…
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"Getting Straight A's. Giving Zero F's." Join the gang, and special guest Andrea Guzzetta, while we take a fun look at Booksmart. This movie has everything: A rich kid who is sure he can buy peoples love, an unhindged karaoke performance dedicated to a high school drama class, and a Fairy Godmother type character that is pure good-natured chaos. Di…
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"Behind every great love is a great story" Join the gang this week while we break down a truly wild movie. This flick has everything. It's got a "meet cute" where She only agrees to go out with him so he doesn't kill himself. A "rebound boyfriend" that is legit perfect for her but some how isn't good enough. And it has the sweetest murder/suicide e…
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"The ultimate romantic disaster movie" Join the gang this week while we break down one of the mid 2000's best Romcoms. This movie has everything: Full-frontal Jason Segel. A Dracula musical: complete with a seductive puppet show, And a clueless newlywed who never even fathomed what it would be like to please his wife. Enjoy this hilarious look at F…
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"What does it even mean?" This week's hottest movie is After Ever Happy. This movie has everything: a whiny Hardin who is literally burning down the house, a fed-up Tessa who has totally had enough of his shit, and a funeral director with the bushiest mustache you've ever seen. Please Subscribe, Rate and Review Romancing the Pod to help more people…
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"You can't run away to find yourself." Join the gang while we break down Sac High's production of "After"...But like if "After" took place in an underground fight club. Yeah. It's pretty much exactly that. This movie is TRASH. But we still found a lot to love in this horrific look at what high schooler's think adult life is like. But listen, at the…
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"A one night stand that turned into something more." 2007's most problematic movie is Knocked Up. This movie has everything: Katherine Heigl, managing a career and pregnancy, yet she's the villain. Seth Rogen? A walking red flag, yet we're meant to root for him. And Paul Rudd with Leslie Mann, whose marriage has more issues than a comic book store.…
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"The One Where We Call Hardin 'Landon' All Episode" Join the gang this week as we break down the wild third movie in the After series. Does anything make sense? No. Do they model any good behavior in this movie? Nah, fam. Do we sort of love the chaos that this movie brings into our lives? Hell yes! We hope you enjoy this breakdown of After We Fell.…
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"Matt never saw her coming... but all his friends had!" Join the gan this week while we break down a movie Paige loved back in the day. Do Mikey and Todd find the movie as charming as Paige once did? Does Paige think the movie still holds up? Do we think Timothy Olyphant was on his way to an Ace Ventura look a like contest while filming this movie.…
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"The one where Mikey got DRUNK" Join the gang this week while we break down, what we have been told is a movie. We couldn't all come to an agreement on if it is in fact a movie. Or a collection of scenes thrown together by our two main characters talking directly to the screen. Did we like this movie? No. not at all. Do we think this movie follows …
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"Can Love Overcome the Past?" Join the gang this week as we continue delving into the insanity of the "After" series. Is this movie good? No. Does Hardin become even more of a monster? Absolutely. Does this movie do a pretty great job of showing how the cycle of abuse can start and be reinforced by close family members? Shockingly, yes. However, we…
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"Three Generations, Two Families, One Forbidden Love" Join the gang while we break down this incredibly good natured, star studded, terrible but fun movie. Did we think it was an amazing movie? No. Did all of us make it through the recording with out getting a noise complaint? No. But damn it did we love talking about this movie. YOU KNOW WE DID!!!…
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This week, Paige, Mikey, and Todd will explore, Baz's grand tale of love and war. With guns that dazzle and Mercutio's scene, In drag, he captivates, on the screen so keen. The finale looms, where fates intertwine, Romeo sips poison; Juliet, fate's design. With bullet, she follows, to the stars above, Join us through this journey of tragic love. Pl…
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"After Your First, Life is Never the Same." Join us this week as we dive into the movie After. This film has everything: a 40-year-old townie with ambitions of becoming the town's Casanova, a high school senior embodying every reason high school boys are a nightmare, and a love story so fragile, Tessa suspects months of romance were just the result…
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"This movie is offensively bad" Join the gang while we break down this wildly offensive movie. I mean this movie has everything. A French accent so bad, it'll make you say "Oh là là" for all the wrong reasons. A leading lady insistent on channeling her inner Dickens character, demanding to don Scrooge's iconic nightcap. A roster of Hollywood's fine…
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"Anna planned to propose to her boyfriend on February 29th. This is not her boyfriend" Join the gang this Leap Day while we break down one hell of a Leap Year. This movie is insane and is pretty much perfect for this podcast. Listen. I'd love to tell you that this is Amy Adams best movie. But...It...Is...Not... But we had loads of fun talking about…
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"We know more about Neptune than we do about the human anus." Join Paige, Todd, with Special Guest Wynter Spears (Mikey has COVID) while we break down this truly amazing movie you've probably never heard of. If you haven't seen the movie yet, don't worry we break it down scene by scene like always, but you really should watch this movie. It's wonde…
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"... Well that's a big mystery" Join the gang this week (with special guest Kristal Adams!) as we break down a Tyler Perry movie so crazy, it's hard to believe it's a Christian morality play. This movie, centered on the amazing partnership of marriage, includes a scene where someone gets strangled, another where one of them brings their affair part…
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"This summer, Prince Akeem discovers America." Join the gang this week as we dare to break down a movie that asks the question: 'Will a future king find his Queen in Queens?' This movie is so much fun and is full of super famous, amazing actors. We couldn't have had more fun talking about it. We hope you enjoy our episode! Please Subscribe, Rate an…
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"In this game, every shot counts." Join the gang this week as we watch Queen Latifah CRUSH it in the extremely ahead-of-its-time movie. Does Queen Latifah have her potential man stolen by her God-Sister? Yup. Does she shake it off and continue to know she is an amazing woman? Hell yeah. And does she get her man back by the end of this movie? Sure, …
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"The flower arrangements have been ordered. The sleeping arrangements are still being worked out." Join the gang this week while we break down a movie about a friend group so messy it makes our hosts look like saints. One of the main characters wrote a book that is about to be a best seller that is more or less a "Who fucked who" in his friend grou…
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"Sometimes there's only one thing left to say" Join the gang this week while Todd's "Picking a movie he hasn't seen that turns out to suck" streak continues. this time it's a movie where a woman's awful marriage ends in her husband's death. But don't worry, her husband was the kind of narcissist that thinks she couldn't move on without him. So he l…
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"The Sex Sense" Join the gang this week while we break down the craziest movie we have done for a long time. Charlie St Cloud seems to be a movie from a different world. That world doesn't understand Death, Sailing, Falling in love, or Astral projection. But we loved this movie. It's insanity put to film and we couldn't have had more fun while watc…
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"How do you know he's not acting with you?" Join the gang this week while we jump back to 2004 to see if a person could fall in love with a flawed person who is working on being a better version of themselves. Could Rosalee fall for a mega-famous actor, who admittedly has done some not-so-great things in the past, but is showing her that he is comm…
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"The one where they use an arc reactor to power a hot air balloon." Join the gang this week where we break down a movie so bonkers it's impossible to believe without seeing it. Does Heather Graham fully try to destroy her friend's life, simply because her friend is more successful? Check. Does Jason Biggs treat his wife like shit the whole movie bu…
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"The one where Mikey is IN the movie" Join us this week while we break down a truly bad but fun Lifetime Christmas movie. That's right, this is a Lifetime movie featuring OSCAR winner Rita Moreno, where she plays Mrs Santa who runs a legit "Santa Bootcamp" for wanna-be Santas. It's wonderful. Oh yeah. MIKEY IS IN THIS MOVIE!!!! Please Subscribe, Ra…
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"It's Never Too Late to Switch the Ending" Join the gang this week while we breakdown a Christmas movie so terrible that Christmas Mikey was EXTREMELY upset. It is truly a mess and shouldn't have even been put to film but damn it if we didn't enjoy talking about it with each other for 2 hours while Mikey tried his best to keep calm. Please Subscrib…
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"Sometimes you gotta have faith" Join the gang this week as we dissect a movie so wild that it seems plucked from mid-80s pop lyrics. And get this, the plot is 1000% lifted from the song "Last Christmas." It's crazy, but trust us, this movie exceeded our expectations. Emma Thompson crafted a masterpiece, perfect for shedding a few tears during the …
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"Hi Jack" Join the gang this week while they, and special guest Jeff May, break down this truly bonkers movie. Is Nic Cage just a dick for like 90% of this film? Oh yea. Does this movie fundamentally misunderstand what "poor" is? Yes. But is Téa Leoni stunning? Absolutely. We think you'll really enjoy this episode. Please Subscribe, Rate and Review…
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"She's bringing home the perfect boyfriend...even if it's a federal offense" Join the gang this Thanksgiving while we breakdown Holiday in Handcuffs. Because we aren't going to let Thanksgiving stop us from celebrating Christmas early. Will Christmas Mikey make an appearance? Will Todd sing carols? Will Paige talk about her literal run-ins with Mar…
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"In a country where anybody can become President, anybody just did" Join the gang this week where we break down a movie so crazy you barely realize that everyone is committing treason against the United States. Do we notice the coup attempt? Yup. Do we wish there was an actual love story in this movie? Absolutely. Do we talk, AT LENGTH, about Kevin…
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"She awoke in the past with a chance to rebuild her future... But doesn't" Join the gang this week while we break down a movie where no one really grows, no one really learns anything, and the terrible man gets to go on being terrible and the lead in the movie just ends up back with him. It's honestly like this movie is terrible. And don't get us w…
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"Everything he needed to know about life, she learned in prison." Join the gang this week while we try to catfish Steve Martin into introducing us to the Queen. Will Queen Latifah be able to help Mikey realize that in order for him to find love he will need to make space for love? Will Todd and Steve Martin dress like Malibu's Most Wanted? Will Pai…
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"What if finding the love of your life meant changing the life that you loved?" Join the gang this week while we breakdown the insane 90's RomCom Fools Rush In. This movie has everything. Selma looking just amazing, Matthew Perry doing his best Chandler impression, and the casual racism that was all too common in the 90's. We had a lot of fun with …
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"Life. Family. Love." Join the gang this week (with guest Devrie Donalson) while we break down Moonstruck. The movie is PEAK Cage and Cher literally won an Oscar for her performance, how could we not love it? We loved it so much that we recorded for over 4 hours. Fortunately for you, we cut that down to about 2 hours 30 Mins of bonkers goodness. De…
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"To get the kingdom of Genovia... There's just a little hitch." Join the gang this week while we try to answer the questions that other podcasts are too afraid to ask. Like how exactly did Queen Renaldi ascend the throne in the first place? Where did all the crown jewels come from? And just exactly who did Genovia side with in WW2? Only one man can…
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"The ball is gonna drain no matter what, so find what you want and take a shot.” Join the gang while we break down a movie that is called Pinball but isn't about Pinball really. It's about how one guy used the lessons he learned playing pinball to make his life better. Throughout the whole movie, he downplays the accomplishments in Pinball in favor…
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"She's cool. He's hot. She's from the Valley. He's not." Join the gang this week while we break down one of the craziest movies we have seen in a while. This is a movie so bonkers Nic Cage seems somewhat tame in it. Is it a good movie? No. not at all. Is it fun? Yes absolutely. We hope you enjoy our crazy episode on Valley Girl. Please Subscribe, R…
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"My NDA is bigger than yours" Join the gang this week while we dine into the liberal fever dream that is Red, White & Royal Blue. I think it is safe to say that not only did we all really enjoy this movie but this is the world we want to live in. This movie is sweet, silly, and super fun. We think you'll feel the same about the episode. Enjoy! Plea…
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"A comedy about one bride, two grooms, and a wedding party you won't believe." Join the gang while we break down one of the craziest movies with Vegas in the title that spends most of it's time in Hawaii. This movie is an insanely fun time and we hope you enjoy hearing us break it down as much as we enjoyed talking about it. Please Subscribe, Rate …
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"Take a trip down the aisle you'll never forget". Join the gang this week while we break down a musical so bad that only Todd could love it. Paige and Mikey both have VERY good reasons for not enjoying it... and it is all of those reasons that makes Todd love it. Wherever you fall with this movie you are sure gonna love the episode. Please Subscrib…
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"Fathers have just one problem with raising their daughters. They grow up" Join the gang this week while we break down the most problematic movie we will probably ever do on the podcast. It's a movie so terrible that it even feels out of place for the 90's. Please don't watch this movie. But enjoy our hilarious takedown of this abomination that sho…
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"This is the story of a girl who was the queen but then she got killed" Join the gang this week while we break down a movie you were probably forced to watch in High School English class. If you haven't watched this movie... DON'T. It's pretty awful. But damn we had a LOT of fun talking about it. And I promise you are going to love this episode. We…
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“We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives." This movie has a little something for everyone. Paige enjoys the love story. Mikey can't help but love Rachel McAdams. And Todd can't help but sob for the last 3rd of this movie because of the Father/Son relationship. But all in all this is a great movie so we thought it was About…
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"Are you game?" Join the gang this week while we head to the Northeast for our last chance to make it as a pro ball player. Will Todd manage to cut his lawns and still be available for his games? Will Paige tell her dad she wants to be an architect? Will Mikey win Jessica Beal back after she told him they were on a break for the summer? Find out no…
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"You obviously know nothing about love" Join the gang this week while we break down a movie so crazy it can only have been created by a candy company trying to tap into that coveted 55 - 75 Grandma hard candy market. It's a wild ride with plenty of crazy twists and turns and we have tons of fun with it. We hope you enjoy our breakdown of Love Again…
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