Episodes

"The Statue is a gift from French citizens and has come to symbolize hope for naked women everywhere.” We talk Spash and ask what mermaids represent with the fabulous J.V. Hampton-VanSant.

"So we just gonna ignore the bear then?" We take some shrooms, go on Summer vacation, and talk Midsommar with the delightful Emma Buntrock-Muller.

So you stopped talking because of Friedrich Nietzsche? Far out. We talk family dynamics, Alan Arkin and Friedrich Nietzsche—among many other things—with the spectacular Carolyn Kendrick.

"Every man has to go through hell to reach paradise." We talk menace, force majeure and Martin Scorcese's Cape Fear with the incomparable Julie Klausner!

"It's not the plane, it's the pilot!" We and the wonderful River Butcher marvel at how Top Gun: Maverick, a three and a half decade late sequel to a blockbuster Navy commercial, can get SO MANY THINGS RIGHT about aging, …

You can't beat us on the grade! In which we and Candace Jane Opper pack into a Plymouth Valiant sedan and talk Stephen Spielberg's Duel while we try to outrun a tanker truck from Hell.

Did you see my cows out front? We talk Twister—the most artful action movie ever made that features both Philip Seymour Hoffman and Roach from the People Under the Stairs—with Niko Stratis!

Dog will hunt! Sarah, Alex, Leatherface and a motley crew of Lone Star cannibals go saw wild at the Texas/Oklahoma Chili Cookoff and talk The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 along the way.

Y'all mind hanging back? You're jamming our frequency. We talk mothers, real life curses, and Poltergeist with the magnificent Carmen Maria Machado!

You know what the difference is between you and us? We make this look good. We get down and dirty with the gooiest aliens in the galaxy, and make some friends along the way, with Stef Rubino.

Do we have soul? That all depends. We time travel back to the Year Two Thousand, crush on John Cusack, and talk High Fidelity with the splendiferous Kate Sloan.

Lord, we give you Curly. Try not to piss him off. We head on out to the country in search of ourselves and talk about City Slickers with our pal Morgan Gold along the way.

Our colors are blush and bashful. We bathe in tears—joyful and sad—and talk Steel Magnolias with friend of the show Ali Soukovich.

“You don't know the power you have over me. One word from you, one look, and I'm four years old again.” We discuss the The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan, Wayne Wang and a mountain of mom feels with the …

“Don't let the man bring you down!” Hot Dog Correspondent Jamie Loftus joins Sarah and special guest host Miranda to talk School of Rock.

"I'm not a box, I don't have sides. This is it, one side fits all!" We and our pal Sam Pancake gear up for Mother's Day season with Postcards from the Edge.

"Most little girls are obsessed with ponies and mermaids, not big sweaty men making jump shots." We look at who's talking now, and talk Look Who's Talking Now, with the wonderful Miranda Zickler.

"Mom always says, 'don't ever eat nothin' that can carry its house around with it. Who knows the last time it's been cleaned.'" We and the wonderful Sooz Kempner enter Mount Rose American Teen Princess and talk Drop Dead Gorgeous!

A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they live? We talk commie tomboys, Daddy da Vinci and Ever After with the wonderful Amanda Wong!

In which, for a fleeting moment, something passed between us. A faint sense of some common destiny. Join us as we talk Babe with the wondrous Caroline O'Donoghue!

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing! We try to figure out who Swing Kids was for, and we tackle some of the existential questions it poses along the way, with Carolyn Kendrick.

Do we look like we need psychological evaluations? We go Under Siege and try like hell to find its emotional core with our pal Josh Gondelman.

The only thing we know is we have to be kind! In which we go into the multiverse with MariNaomi and explore our love for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

“You don’t need to bite the donut to know it’s sweet.” In which we get BACK IN THE HABIT and talk Sister Act 2 with the wonderful Lynne Childress!