The Grand Gesture

To wrap up our month on mothers at the movies we have to do a bit of homewrecking. And there is no better person to do it than Clint Eastwood as he shows up at Meryl Streep's door with a camera in hand and many notches on his belt. And while so far these show notes have leaned into comfortable sarcasm, prepare yourself dear listener for discomfort as two middle-aged men share their love over this film that they would never admit to seeing before.

Thankfully no one listens to this podcast. Enjoy!

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Now we are getting somewhere with our mommy porn month. Not only do we put Angela Bassett in The Meryl Category of acting... but also as an object of desire for short former Broadway musical stars with questionable Jamaican accents. And that's as close as we'll come to saying ANYTHING bad about the great Taye Diggs. Instead we will defend both of these characters from the attacks they face from friends and family over their vacation love affair in the transition to something more sustainable. But do we want a sequel? No... in fact our transition may be to something with that Meryl lady on next week's episode. For now, enjoy us objectifying Ms. Bassett and Mr. Diggs!

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We take a momentary break from our series on mommy porn (though our guest Jairo of MARK AS PLAYED and THE TRUE BROMANCE FILM PODCAST opens with a titillating anecdote on Kevin Costner's real life contribution to this art) to move on to the reason for Instagram: food porn. And since we occasionally talk about movies on this show, our feature film on the subject is JULIE & JULIA where Meryl Streep inspires Amy Adams on a quest to cause pleasurable distraction and agonizing despair.

Which is also the goal of THE GRAND GESTURE. Enjoy!

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After last week's episode on BOOK CLUB we are contractually obligated to continue exploring the kinks of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and your hosts find Dakota Johnson pretty, pretty, pretty charming.

And that's about it.

However we attempt to work through a polite approach to questioning a partner's particular kinks and also find the post-honeymoon phase of sharing a pint of vanilla ice cream to be highly erotic. Enjoy!

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As two well-read men of a certain age we figured we'd take a break from any part of that to watch some well-read women of a certain age get back to the basics of boning.

We really didn't need anything else but BOOK CLUB sweetens the pot by starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen.

As mentioned above... all of them are READY TO BONE.

And now so are you.

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On the second part of our expose of love in 90s cinema we "welcome" back Jessi to settle once and all if Rex Manning Day is worth celebrating. Along the way Dave of A PODCAST DIRECTED BY continues to dig his co-host's early grave by basking in his shameful love of EMPIRE RECORDS while Mike would rather be watching RENT.

But not for the right reasons. Enjoy!

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With everyone hopefully laying on the couch at home we thought this was the perfect time to check in with our Gen X heroes of REALITY BITES. Jessi joins Dave and Mike to share her thanks that her glory days of dating the likes of Troys (defined here in iconic fashion by Ethan Hawke) are over while one host is insistent upon tough love from Janeane Garofalo being just what Winona Ryder needs (the right host, of course). Then we finish with a list of people one host would like to have sex with (again... the right host). Enjoy!

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On this episode one host establishes some boundaries with another host (though supporting sex workers is deemed mostly acceptable) while our guest Amanda ‘HardCandiMandi’ Kosowiec of the CINEMA GEEKS podcast joins the show to explain her strategy for social distancing while still getting free cable from THE CABLE GUY. And yet somehow she still ended up on this podcast. Poor choices made by all! Including you, dear listener.

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On this episode celebrating the perhaps underrated COPYCAT from 1995 the topics range from the hatred of experts in the age of Trump, teaching your kid that not only will he not be the next Lebron James but he won't even be John Stockton, and the nostalgia for mid 90s screensavers. All of this with our new therapist on the show, Derek Stewart, who was bamboozled into thinking that he'd ever get to talk about an actual romcom. Ha!

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This episode was delayed for just the right season for one to take up Robert Redford's grand gesture to Jane Fonda found in the title. Unfortunately like most things in our world at the moment BAREFOOT IN THE PARK would not be looked upon kindly but your favorite podcast producer isn't really in the mood to watch/talk OUTBREAK or CONTAGION. Instead we welcome back the show's new therapist, Derek Stewart, to discuss the pleasures of older women, wife swapping, and taking naps when company comes over. The life lessons one really needs in the time of a worldwide health scare; enjoy!

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