Paid in Puke S10E2: Cat Person

On this episode of Paid in Puke, we analyze Susanna Fogel‘s 2023 thriller, Cat Person based on the 2017 short story by Kristen Roupenian, and adapted for the screen by Michelle Ashford, who was the showrunner for Masters of Sex, but most importantly, wrote the teleplay to the abortion episode of 21 Jump Street. The film stars Emilia Jones, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Isabella Rossellini, and Nicholas Braun.

We all had very different feelings about this film, both from our initial watch together in the theater, and after our analytical watches for the pod. Journey with us as we discuss how heavy-handed a metaphor we can tolerate; why Fogel might have tried a bit too hard to cater to a male audience, at the film’s expense; the surprisingly problematic element of the source material; and how Nicholas Braun perfected towing the line between awkward and creepy. 

Plus: Did Harrison Ford ruin a generation of men? 

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October 29, 2024
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Paid in Puke Podcast: S10E1: Abortionpalooza 2024

It’s our Season TEN premiere AND our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE! Thank you to all of our listeners! We are thrilled to be back with our third Abortionpalooza, but much less stoked about the fact that thanks to the overturning of Roe V. Wade, uterus-owning Americans currently have less bodily autonomy than they did in Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Three. 

We kick things off with a brief history of abortion depiction on television and examine season 3, episode 5 of the teen cop drama, 21 Jump Street, “Whose Choice is it Anyway?”. It originally aired on December 11th 1988 on the Fox network. It stars Holly Robinson-Peete, Stacey Edwards, and Dana Ashbrook (Twin Peaks). The teleplay by Michelle Ashford (Masters of Sex, Cat Person), is surprisingly progressive and they even go so far as to make an anti-choice terrorist the villain. 

Then we tool around with Lily Tomlin and Julia Garner in 2015’s “Grandma”, directed by Paul Weitz (American Pie, About a Boy), and co-written by Tomlin, who put a lot of her own voice in it. Garner plays a high school girl who asks her free-wheeling grandmother (Tomlin) to help her scrounge up enough money to make it to an abortion appointment by 5 pm. Judy Greer, Marsha Gay Harden, Laverne Cox, and John Cho round out a fun supporting cast. 

We touch on themes such as who *needs* to be involved in deciding what to do about a pregnancy (*spoiler alert* it’s pretty much just the person carrying the fetus), where should kids get information about pregnancy and birth control, and why women should be valued for more than just their fertility. 

On the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal some information we wish we had never received.

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October 9, 2024
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Really Weird Stuff: A Twin Peaks Podcast – The Return Part Two – “The stars turn and a time presents itself.”

On episode 33 of Really Weird Stuff, we’re discussing Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Two – “The stars turn and a time presents itself.” This episode was written by David Lynch and Mark Frost, and directed by David Lynch. It originally aired May 21, 2017 on Showtime, along with Part One. This episode is best known for the return of Laura Palmer. 25 years later, she is still dead (yet she lives). Also, she’s got a new brooch and a crazy detachable face.

Special guest, Michael Hayes joins us to explore such mysteries as:

WHY doesn’t Mr. C want to get pulled back into the Lodge?

WHAT does Laura whisper to Coop?

WHO is pretending to be Philip Jeffries?

WHEN exactly CAN Coop go out?

PLUS: Some Really Weird Stuff Firsts, including awards mayhem and our guest watching the episode cold. 

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August 21, 2024
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Really Weird Stuff: A Twin Peaks Podcast – The Return Part One – “My log has a message for you.”

On episode 32 of Really Weird Stuff, we’re discussing Twin Peaks: The Return, Part One – “My log has a message for you.” This episode was written by David Lynch and Mark Frost, and directed by David Lynch. It originally aired May 21, 2017 on Showtime. This episode is best known for being the long-anticipated, much-rumored third season of Twin Peaks. It takes place 25 years after we left the real Dale Cooper in the lodge with his doppelgänger on the loose out in the world. It was also miraculously filmed 25 years later, and that’s only one of the myriad coincidences that makes this thing feel serendipitous and inevitable. 

Special guest, Two Thangs (a.k.a. Matthew Brennan, IV) joins us to explore such mysteries as: 

WHY is Tracy gagging to get into that secret room with Sam?

WHERE did the security guard go?

HOW does Marjorie not know her address (or much of anything)?

WHAT does Matt have to do to get eyebrows like Otis?

PLUS: Kyle MacLachlan is a character actor in the body of a matinee idol!

Find Two Thangs and his amazing art on the socials @two.thangs. You can order custom pop culture art for yourself, unique merch featuring previous commissioned paintings, and pre-order his coffee table book, “Anythang & Everythang”, which will come out August 2024. 

This episode is dedicated to Catherine Coulson and Bob Silva.

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June 17, 2024
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Paid in Puke Minisode: Cora Bora

On this very special minisode of Paid in Puke, we’re falling in love with Hannah Pearl Utt’s 2024 comedy, “Cora Bora”, starring Megan Stalter, Ayden Mayeri, JoJo T. Gibbs, and Manny Jacinto, with cameos from Chelsea Peretti and Margaret Cho. The Pukettes got a sneak peek at this hilarious movie that will hopefully propel Megan Stalter to the stardom she deserves. 

Rhianon Jones’ very PDX screenplay tells the story of an L.A. based musician with a tragic past who returns to her home in Portland Oregon on a whim after sensing that her open relationship with her girlfriend in in jeopardy. Megan Stalter owns this movie start to finish. She’s hilarious as always, but also brings out an unexpected dramatic side. We absolutely loved “Cora Bora”, and will definitely give it the full Paid in Puke treatment once it’s out on streaming, but we also want to tell everyone to go see it while it’s still in theaters! As always, there are spoilers, so if you don’t want to know the big reveal about what’s wrong with Cora, see the movie first and then come back and listen to this (or navigate around them*).“Cora Bora” is in limited release starting June 14th, 2024 – around L.A. and New York. It’s not super easy to figure out where and when it’s playing but we promise it will be worth the goog. It opens in Seattle, Washington on June 22nd 2024at the Grand Illusion Cinema, which is a wonderful little arthouse cinema and there aren’t that many of those left so please support small indie movie houses whenever you can. And please throw down some $$ to support “Cora Bora”! *Spoilers 10:07-14:20; 16:00-16:26

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June 14, 2024
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Paid in Puke S9E10: The Bling Ring

On this episode of Paid in Puke Podcast, we’re rummaging through Sofia Coppola‘s 2013 true crime drama, “The Bling Ring”, starring Emma Watson, Katie Chang, Taissa Farmiga, Claire Julian, Leslie Mann, and Israel Broussard. Coppola based the script on Nancy Jo Sales’ 2010 Vanity Fair article, “The Suspects Wore Louboutins”. Our returning guest is the Sparkle Queen known as Laura Lawrence (“9 to 5”). Laura has has seen the film many times, jammed out to the soundtrack many MORE times, and brings a shopping bag full of fun facts. 

We also get into the film’s prescience for today’s influencer culture, and why kids are less inclined to aspire to landing “a good job”. On the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal the things we have in such abundance, we might not notice getting robbed.

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May 9, 2024
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Really Weird Stuff: A Twin Peaks Podcast – Fire Walk With Me

On episode 31 of Really Weird Stuff: A Twin Peaks Podcast, we’re diving headlong into the 1992 cinematic prequel, “Fire Walk With Me”, written by Robert Engels and David Lynch, and directed by David Lynch. It was released to theaters August 28th, 1992 and flopped HARD. It had premiered at Cannes earlier that year, to the bafflement of audiences and most critics. A handful of European critics were pioneers of understanding the film for the masterpiece it is. Sheryl Lee and Ray Wise give everything they have to tell the story of Laura’s final days. We also learn a little about Theresa Banks and the agents who mysteriously disappeared whilst investigating cases with the top secret designation: Blue Rose. 

We did a tremendous amount of prep for this episode, including studying the lore of the Lodge Entities,  providing foot notes from The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, and doing our best to understand The Coop Loop.  

Predictably, the discussion gets fairly heavy at times. 
TRIGGER WARNINGS: for discussing Sexual Assault, Drug Abuse, and Incest.

But we also manage to have a little fun mining the moments of levity, heaping love onto some favorite characters (including Bobby and Carl), and reminiscing about when we first got to know Laura Palmer. As Amy overheard from some teenage girls in the bathroom of the Westfield New Jersey Mall Cinema in 1992, “there are some movies you just have to be an adult to understand”. And even then, it takes some leg work. 

Gobble… Gobble. Gobble. 

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April 29, 2024
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Paid in Puke Podcast S9E9: Saltburn

On Season 9, Episode 9 of Paid in Puke, we’re slurping up Emerald Fennell‘s 2023 gothic drama, Saltburn, starring Rosamund Pike, Alison Oliver, Carey Mulligan, Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Archie Madekwe, and Richard E. Grant. Fennell wrote her original screenplay during lockdown, and filled it to the brim with foreshadowing, symbolism, entendre, and myriad literary references. We’re here to celebrate this carefully-constructed masterpiece, dive to the deepest of the layers, and, of course, appreciate the visual splendor.

It’s Keggers with Kids all this episode, with Logan Green, who has answers to your burning questions, and a tub full of fun facts.  

On the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal which songs people MIGHT think were written about us (“She came from Greece! She had a thirst for knowledge!”).

We ate this movie up and licked the f*cking plate. Come to Saltburn and get lost with us!

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March 15, 2024
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Paid in Puke Podcast: 2024 Oscars Special

It’s the Paid in Puke 2024 Oscars Special! Join us and special guest Denise Rodriguez (our Resident Oscar Specialist) as we run through the major categories (all the actors, director, and picture) with our Misses, Wishes, and Predic-shes. We dive deep into the enigma that is the career of B-Coop, and why Oppenheimer has so many more noms, even though Barbie clearly won in terms of money and popularity. We fawn over Poor Things, and we agree that a Greta was snubbed, but it might not be the one you think. We give Past Lives, Saltburn, and All of Us Strangers the recognition that the Academy failed to bestow. And we puzzle over why Willem Defoe is one of the best actors to never win an Oscar.

As a bonus, we each chose a technical category to discuss, and what we’re most looking forward to on Oscar Night. 

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February 27, 2024
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Paid in Puke Podcast S9E8: The Assistant

On season 9, episode 8 of Paid in Puke Podcast, we’re sorting through Kitty Green‘s 2019 drama, “The Assistant”. It stars Julia Garner, as the titular assistant at a high-powered New York film production office, who navigates a particularly trying day at work. While this is a “me too” movie, and the nameless boss in question bares some resemblance, The Assistant is not about Weinstein. Instead, it captures an all-too pervasive systematic conspiracy to allow powerful men to assault women without repercussions. 

The Assistant is also relatable anyone who has ever had a job description vague enough to become the office task dumpster. We love this movie, Kitty Green’s unique ability to capture the sinister tone of misogynist micro-aggressions, and Julia Garner’s nuanced frown. 

On the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal the dumbest thing a boss has ever asked of us. 

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February 15, 2024
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