Viewing Party

Cue the synchronized dancing: this week Viewing Party talks La La Land with friend of the podcast, Bob! During this episode we discuss our favorite and least favorite scenes, pitch SNL, accuse Katie of making out with a member of KISS, and look at more random photos on Wesleigh’s phone. Now with more high-fives than any other episode!

This week on Viewing Party, we’re back in the Tatumverse as we discuss Stop-Loss, a film about the toll of the Iraq war on young soldiers in the 2000s. In this episode we try to follow the plot of this film, read you the majority of a Wikipedia page and talk about a terrible movie with a talking skateboard. Bonus: Katie makes the argument for your hosts sharing a husband!

Join Viewing Party as we watch a film that is a Smash Mouth film incarnate: Shrek! This animated tale that every millennial has memorized leads to conversations on idealized relationships, body image representation, and which John Cusack is better, teen heartthrob or dreamy adult? Also, Katie sings great theme songs and Wesleigh rants about a font!

Travel back in time with Viewing Party as we cover Midnight in Paris! This episode has a lot of tangents, starting with Wesleigh having a Super Monday and Katie swallowing a bug, and gets more entertaining from there. We also discuss oversized clothing, idealized history, cats, our love for Kathy Bates, and give our weekly Park and Recs.

It's time for another Very Special Minisode! We've had some life changes going on outside the podcast, so, this week, enjoy an outtake from our Anastasia episode where were take a long tangent to discuss a certain curly-haired kiddo.

Viewing Party heads to where the weather outside is weather and discusses the '08 Jason Segel comedy, Forgetting Sarah Marshall! In this episode Katie and Wesleigh discuss spoilers, Russell Brand's manbun, puppet musicals, body type representation in Hollywood, and how many Channings equal one John Cena.

It’s time to return to the Tatumverse … just barely. This week Viewing Party tackles Step Up 2, which touts Channing, but greatly disappoints, and not just because he only has about 8 minutes of screen time. Aside from bemoaning this movie, Katie and Wesleigh talk about current terrible weather, the weird cell phones of the mid-2000s, and, after discussing the new IT, discover a red balloon in Katie’s bedroom!

Viewing Party revisits the early 00s with a feel-good teen girl favorite: The Princess Diaries! In this episode Katie does a LOT of voices, we learn what it takes to turn Wesleigh British, and discuss dreamsicles, high-end Gordo, the key to perfect chocolate chip cookies, and the fact that Tim Burton never learns a lesson. Also, we introduce a new segment we name on the spot!

We wrap up Katie’s month-long birthday celebration with a favorite movie from her childhood: RocketMan, a space comedy HBO describes as a “zany slapstick farce."

In this episode we compare this to its obvious equivilent, The Martian, google math problems and request info from NASA, learn about Katie's newfound magical butt powers and learn that friends don’t leave friends behind - even when they’re chimps. (Sorry for the loud scratchy noises! Our current recording set up is very good at making blankets sound loud and crunchy. We don't get it, either.)

IT'S KATIE'S BIRTHDAY! We're celebrating her birth all month, and today we're watching her most favorite movie, The Fellowship of the Ring. In this episode we call in Katie's cousin Kate — the Frodo to her Samwise — to bask in the the glorious awkwardness of their love for Elijah Wood, discuss what weapons we'd want for a quest, and hear exactly why they couldn't just take the eagles to Mt. Doom.