Welcome to The Chick-Lit (And Movies) Podcast 🎙️🍿, where we proudly lower our expectations for cinema so you don’t have to 🙃✨ Each month, we cover two films: one critically beloved 🏆 and one absolute disaster 🔥🗑️

This week, the Chicks 🐥 drive straight off some porch steps on a motorbike into “Beastly” (2011) 💀🪞 - the CW-coded fever dream that asked, “What if Beauty and the Beast… but make it Hot Topic?” 👨‍🎤🌹

Join us as we unpack Kyle’s transformation from emotionally vacant pretty boy to… emotionally vacant pretty boy with contour 🫠✨, while Vanessa Hudgens is forced to carry the entire concept of “growth” on her back, all the while NLOGging it up📚💔. Mary-Kate Olsen shows up as a chaotic witch serving consequences and then promptly exits like she has better things to do (she does) 🧙‍♀️💅

We’re talking aggressive Wattpad energy 🪞😭, deeply unserious dialogue 💉, and a romance that feels suspiciously like kidnapping with better lighting 🚩🏠. Plus, we ask the real questions: At what point do you realize you’re not in a love story… you’re in a hostage situation? 🤨 And did this man actually change, or did he just fake it long enough to beat the curse?? ⏳👀

Expect cringe 💀, chaos 🔥, and at least one moment where you’ll want to leave your body and watch from the ceiling 🫥✨

⚠️ Massive spoilers ahead - but this movie came out in 2011, so… again, that’s on you ⚠️

So grab your skincare routine 🧴, your emotional support Bumpit 💇‍♀️, and maybe a restraining order just in case 📄🚫 as we break down “Beastly” 🎬

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Welcome to The Chick-Lit (And Movies) Podcast 🎙️🍿, where we proudly lower our expectations for cinema so you don’t have to 🙃✨ Each month, we cover two films: one critically beloved 🏆 and one absolute disaster 🔥🗑️

This week, the Chicks 🐥 trade conspiracies for curtain calls 🎭 as we twirl our way into “The Sound of Music” (1965) 🎶🏔️ - the wholesome classic that raised generations… and set impossibly high standards for singing nuns and emotionally available fathers 💀

Join us as we unpack the von Trapp family chaos 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, question Maria’s speedrun from postulant to stepmom 💍⛪, and ask the hard-hitting questions: How many outfit changes is too many for one woman with a guitar? 🎸👗 And why are these children SO talented?? 🧒✨

There will be questionable accents 🇦🇹❓, and an alarming amount of yodel-adjacent behavior 🏔️📢 as we revisit a movie that is equal parts comfort film and emotional ambush 😭💥

⚠️ Massive spoilers ahead - but this movie has been out since 1965 so… respectfully, that’s on you ⚠️

So grab your favorite cozy blanket 🛋️, prepare to get “Do-Re-Mi” stuck in your head for the next 72 hours 🎶🧠, and climb every mountain with us 🏔️ as we break down “The Sound of Music” 🎬

So long, farewell… to logic and emotional stability 👋💀

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Welcome to The Chick-Lit (And Movies) Podcast 🎙️🍿, where we proudly lower our expectations for cinema so you don’t have to 🙃✨ Each month, we cover two films: one critically beloved 🏆 and one absolute disaster 🔥🗑️

This week, the Chicks 🐥 fly in (space shuttle first) to a cinematic conspiracy spectacular 🧠🌀 featuring clones 👯‍♂️, demons 😈, the Illuminati 👁️🔺, and… Donald Trump 🇺🇸

Yes, really. No, it does not make sense 💀

Join us as we attempt to unpack a movie that feels like it was animated in a group chat 🎮📉 and written during a 3AM YouTube rabbit hole 🕳️😵‍💫 We ask the important questions: Is this satire? 🤡 Is this propaganda? 🤨 Is this… a movie? 🎬❓

There are unhinged monologues 📢, chaotic plotlines 🏃‍♀️💨, and vibes that suggest no one was ever told “no” (seriously, nothing makes sense) 🚫 This film has the confidence of someone explaining conspiracy theories at a family dinner 🍽️😤 and the structure of a fever dream 🤒💫

⚠️ Massive spoilers ahead — but honestly, nothing could prepare you ⚠️

So grab your tinfoil hat 🧢📡, suspend all logic 🚫🧠, and spiral with us 🌀 as we break down “Trump vs the Illuminati” (2020) 🎬

Clarity not included 🚫💀

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Welcome to The Chick-Lit (And Movies) Podcast 🎙️🍿, where we proudly lower our expectations for cinema so you don’t have to 🙃✨ Each month, we cover two films: one critically beloved 🏆 and one absolute disaster 🔥🗑️

Join the Chicks 🐥 as we plunge headfirst into the world of yearning 💔, lies 🤥, and ONE deeply unfortunate little girl 👧 with the power to ruin literally everything 💥 We scream at Briony 😤📢 We scream about Briony 😩📣 We briefly consider entering the screen to stop Briony 🚪🫠 It does not help ❌

There’s a twist that will emotionally body-slam you 🤼‍♀️💔, devastating consequences 😭, and vibes so pretty 🌿✨ they almost trick you into thinking you’re safe 😌 You are NOT safe 🚫⚠️

⚠️ Massive spoilers ahead — watch first unless you enjoy raw psychological damage 🧠💥⚠️

So throw on your green dress 💚👗, jump into a fountain for absolutely no reason 💦😌, ignore that festering wound 🤢 (bad idea 🚫), and spiral with us 🌀 as we break down “Atonement” (2007) 🎬

Emotional support not provided 🚫🫂💀

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Leave The Chicks a Voicemail: 984-212-4808

Welcome to The Chick-Lit (And Movies) Podcast 🎙️🍿, where we proudly lower our expectations for cinema so you don’t have to 🙃✨ Each month, we cover two films: one critically beloved 🏆 and one absolute disaster 🔥🗑️

So hold on to your pants, mortals! 🍿🔥 This week on Chick-Lit (And Movies), we’re commercial flying headfirst into this month’s “so-bad-it’s-hilarious” cinematic treasure: 2014’s “Left Behind”. ✈️🌩️

Watch Nicolas Cage navigate the post-Rapture apocalypse like a man who will take any role to pay off his dinosaur bone debt — because of COURSE he has dinosaur bone debt. 🦖💸 Grab your salty movie snack 🍿, keep clutching onto your faith (or don’t, we really don’t care) 🙏😌, and prepare for unapologetic disaster-level entertainment. 💥🎬

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It’s a rebrand, y’all.

Welcome to The Chick-Lit (And Movies) Podcast 🎙️🍿, where we proudly lower our expectations for cinema so you don’t have to 🙃✨ Each month, we cover two films: one critically beloved 🏆 and one absolute disaster 🔥🗑️

Naturally, our first episode lands somewhere in between 😌⚖️

We’re cliff-diving headfirst 🧗‍♀️💥 into “New Moon” (2009) 🌙🐺 — aka Welcome to Hell 🔥… or just Forks, Washington 🌧️🌲 Bella Swan completely unravels 😵‍💫💔 when her boyfriend of approximately five minutes ⏱️🧍‍♂️ leaves town, reminding all of us that teenage romance is a perfectly reasonable excuse for emotional devastation 😭 and absolutely zero regard for responsibility 🚫📉

This episode bridges the gap 🌉 between our New Moon book season 📚✨ and our shiny new rebrand 💅🎙️, meaning new segments 🆕, fresh chaos 🌪️, and the same old… us 😈

Join the Chicks 🐥 as we revisit the good 👍, the bad 👎, and the aggressively unhinged 🤪🔥

CW: Mentions of unaliving

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Join the chicks to discuss Hilaria Baldwin's weird fake accent, The terrible wigs from Breaking Dawn part 2, that time Alec Baldwin shot someone, the Ghost Adventures guy whose wife hired a hitman to kill him, and of course, the next two chapters of this god-awful book. Karyn gets extremely mad about Smeyer's characterization of indigenous gender roles, and Bella is still super racist. Also, happy half birthday to Pebbles! Abondanza!
 
🎬Media Recs/What Are We Watching: "White Lotus Season 3" on HBO, "Duskwalker Brides" series by Opal Reyne

🍸☕Drinks of the Day: Lavazza Dolcevita Classico Medium Coffee with Coffeemate Hazelnut Creamer (Aubree); Lavender Latte

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Music Credits:
"Let's Get Chick Lit"
Written and performed by Karyn & Aubree
2020

Hello again! The Chicks are back to discuss the next two chapters of New Moon, as well as, but not limited to: Mideival torture, Karyn's dating life update, the Sewer Rat April Fool's featuring Jackson Rathbone, and how gross Trumpy coffee is. Our contempt for Book Bella deepens as she accuses Jake of being a murderer because she's dumb, and then even more when Smeyer's extremely ignorant and creepy description of indigenous teenagers is read aloud. Join the Chicks for a very, VERY racially charged couple of chapters, we honestly were in disbelief over how bad it was.

🎬Media Recs/What Are We Watching: "Severance" on Apple TV + "Wicked" on Peacock

🍸☕Drinks of the Day: Black Rifle "Tactisquatch" (Aubree); Beet Juice and Soda (Karyn) (yeah... this week wasn't a home run for the drinks)

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Music Credits:
"Let's Get Chick Lit"
Written and performed by Karyn & Aubree
2020

Somewhere the sun shines, somewhere the birds sing the glories of a new dawn. Somewhere … it's Spring again!  But HERE … every day is Halloween!  Rogue Transmissions, an uncanny anthology of exceptional indie podcasts, presents  the Halfway to Halloween Hullabaloo!  Your horror host Edward October is scanning the dial for lost broadcasts, campfire tales, and weird nostalgia to bring you a hell-raising halfway to Halloween party that will chase away the springtime blues.
 
First up:  Vintage Halloween games and fortune-telling rituals, the secret of "The Ring Wraith Kid," and ghostly electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) recorded in a haunted apartment. Then: Green glowing footprints (do they belong to a ghost or an alien?), a startling steampunk re-imagining of The Tell-Tale Heart, a haunted pub, and a terrifying true missing persons case. Plus: The Tavern Haunting, and the true account of a haunted cabin in the woods.
 
Featuring Rogue Transmissions from: Karyn Raynor & Aubree Summers (Chick Lit podcast); Alecia Watson (Twisted & Uncorked and Truly Twisted); Amber & Maddie (Witches Talking Tarot); JT Hosack (Brew Crime); Emma & Becky (Spine Chillers & Serial Killers); Nikki Young (Serial Napper); Jen (Our True Crime Podcast); Edward October (Octoberpod AM)
 
Tighten your screams, dust off your shrouds, and bring enough candy to feed a crowd ... because we're throwing a Halfway to Halloween party wild enough to wake the dead on this edition of Rogue Transmissions, the uncanny anthology of exceptional indie podcasts.

Happy Friday Chickadees! Welcome to our first episode recorded in 2025! Join the girls as they discuss our current political hellscape, Karyn's obsession with Nosferatu, and the next two chapters of "New Moon". Will Bella ever learn to act like a normal fucking person?

(Spoiler: no.)

🎬Media Recs/What Are We Watching: "Nosferatu" (2024) "Antiques Roadshow"

🍸☕Drinks of the Day: Bellerom by Lidl Gold Coffee medium roast imported from Germany, with hazelnut creamer from International Delight (Aubree); Lime Whiteclaw (Karyn)


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Music Credits:

"Let's Get Chick Lit"
Written and performed by Karyn & Aubree
2020