It's My Screen Time Too

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March 20, 2024If She Can See It, Can She Be It? The Importance of On-Screen STEM Roles For Women
We talk about women in STEM in movies and on TV. Is the Geena Davis Institute’s slogan of “if she can see it, she can be it” borne out by their latest report? We also catch up on what our kids are watching and what’s on our grown-up screen time watch lists.

Past episodes we mention:
American Girl: Corinne Tan Review
Lyla in the Loop Review
Spooky Buddies Review, which is where we talked about the Geena Davis Institute for the first time
Wonka Review
Portray Her 2.0: An Analysis of 15 Years of Women in STEM On-Screen, 2007–2022
The Town episode: The Harsh Data Behind ‘Barbie’ and Taylor Swift’s Success
You might get the idea that we’re not impressed by the Geena Davis Institute’s work from listening to this episode. That is not the case! We generally support their mission and invite you to check out the other good work they’re doing here: https://seejane.org/
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV is the 4-part documentary series about the toxic work environment for the kids on popular Nickelodeon shows of the 90s and aughts. It airs on Investigation Discovery. Check your local listings.
What our kids are watching this week:
Wonka
Young Sheldon
What we’re watching in grown-up screen time:
Dune Part 2
Feud: Capote vs the Swans
Monsieur Spade
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22 min
March 13, 2024Tween Dreams and Rescue Teams: American Girl Corinne Tan the Movie Review
We revisit the American Girl universe for the first time in years to watch American Girl: Corinne Tan The Movie. We may have struggled to find things to love in this short movie aimed at tweens, but you’d better believe we found a spot for podcast fave John Cho in our reimagined HBO casting.

Previous episodes we mention
Maryellen: Extraordinary Christmas Review
American Born Chinese Review
Harriet the Spy Review
Inventing the Perfect College Applicant from New York Magazine on January 29th
The Other Two available on Max
They do still make American Girl books! Corinne to the Rescue
American Girl: Corinne Tan The Movie made us think of these movies and shows for grown ups:
Bad Moms
Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin on Disney Plus
What I Learned in Avalanche School by Heidi Julavits in the New York Times
We cast the gritty HBO reboot of the movie with:
Awkwafina or America Ferrera as Corinne’s mom
Simu Liu or John Cho (podcast fave!) as Corinne’s dad
Ariana Greenblatt as Corinne
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28 min
March 06, 2024Screen Time in the News: Screens and Diet Culture
In this Screen Time in the News episode, we discuss a recent Burnt Toast podcast episode where diet culture critic Virginia Sole Smith interviews Ash Brandin, The Gamer Educator. We’ve never connected our screen time discussions with anti-fat bias before!
We also catch up on our family watch lists and what we’re watching once the kids go to bed.
The podcast episode we discuss in today's episode is: Are Screens the New Sugar?
Other things we mention in this episode:

The Gamer Educator
Wired’s Screen Time Food Pyramid
What we’ve been watching with our kids:
Hazbin Hotel on Amazon Prime (Warning: mature content. Use your discretion.)
The Floor is Lava Season 3 on Netflix
What we’re enjoying during grown-up screen time:
Jon Stewart hosting The Daily Show on Mondays on Comedy Central
Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Amazon Prime
Feud: Capote and the Swans on Hulu
Bonus: We talked about the previous season of Feud, which is called Feud: Bette and Joan and is also available to stream on Hulu. (It aired way back in 2017!)
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23 min
February 28, 2024Pokemon Concierge Review
We review Pokemon Concierge on Netflix. Katie gushes over the stop motion animation, and Deborah wishes she could name more than two pokemon. They agree that fuzzy, three-dimensional pokemon are superior to their traditionally animated counterparts in hugability.

Pokemon Concierge made us think of these shows or movies for grown ups:
White Lotus
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
In our gritty reboot casting, we would like to see:
Emma Stone or Anna Kendrick as Haru
Tracy Morgan, Wanda Sykes, Nate Bargatze, Jennifer Coolidge, and Kate Burlant as the pokemon
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22 min
February 21, 2024 Screen Time in the News: AI
We continue our conversation about kids and AI in this Screen Time in the News episode. We discuss an MIT Technology Review article about talking to our kids about AI and catch up on our family watch lists and what we’re watching once the kids go to bed.

The article we discuss in this episode is “You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say” from the MIT Technology Review. It was published on September 5th and written by Rhiannon Williams and Melissa Heikkilä.

Other It’s My Screen Time Too episodes we mention:
Episode 168 Harriet the Spy
Episode 173 Lyla in the Loop

This was a fun podcast episode Katie used to introduce her kids to AI: Wow in the World episode AI-AI-Oh Wow!
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19 min
February 14, 2024 Trailer
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1 min
February 14, 2024Lyla in the Loop Review
We review PBS Kids’ first foray into AI: Lyla in the Loop. Is Lyla’s alien computer friend Stu an adorable way to teach kids about coding languages or a harbinger of the end of all things? At least Katie and Deborah agree that everyone could use an AI sidekick to clean the kitchen.

Other episodes we mention:
Episode 168 Harriet the Spy
Episode 73 Puffin Rock

Here’s a link to Lyla’s “bunny ear” shoe tying technique.

Lyla in the Loop made us think of these shows or movies for grown ups:
The Bear
Parenthood
Brothers and Sisters
Modern Family
Mommie Dearest

In our gritty reboot casting, we would like to see:
Issa Rae as Lyla
Jeremy Allan White as Mr. Loop
Ayo Edebiri as Mrs. Loop

We found the old episode of 3-2-1 contact about acid rain that Deborah mentioned.

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26 min
January 24, 2024 Special Announcement
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3 min
December 20, 2023 Wonka
Grab your everlasting gobstoppers for our holiday season review of Wonka, the musical prequel to the 1971 classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. We welcomed Alex and Kelly, hosts of the Dirt Nap City podcast, to explore our thoughts on prequels, musicals, oompa loompas, chocolate that doesn’t look like chocolate, whether Timothee Chalamet is a worthy successor to Gene Wilder, and much more. In Screen Time in the News, we discuss why marketing departments are leaving the music out of trailers for musicals.
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1 hr 14 min
December 13, 2023 Wish
We review the latest Disney animated musical Wish. Find out how it compares to favorites like Frozen and Encanto. Katie takes us on a journey through the recent history of Disney musicals to see where this one fits, and we discuss whether tying this movie to Disney’s 100th anniversary celebration was a smart move. In Screen Time in the News, we discuss an episode of the podcast Struggle Care about the dangers of family vlogging.
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41 min

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