Paid in Puke 2025 Oscars Special!

It’s the 2025 Paid in Puke Oscars Special with our Academy Award Pukette, Denise Rodriguez! We all saw and loved a TON of movies this year, and most of them didn’t get nominated for anything! Regardless, we talk about the films we loved and why they didn’t get any Academy props, the Emilia Pérez mess, films about the trans experience that were actually good, the ethics of using AI in films, and why we come to Nicole Kidman for magic.

Films covered include: A Different Man, Anora, A Real Pain, Babygirl, Between the Temples, Bird, Challengers, Emelia Pérez, Flow, Ghostlight, I Saw the TV Glow, Love Lies Bleeding, Maria, Nightbitch, Nosferatu, Queer, Sing Sing, The Apprentice, The Brutalist, The Last Showgirl, The Substance, The Wild Robot, Will & Harper.

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Paid in Puke Podcast S9E3: But I’m a Cheerleader

On season 9, episode 3 of Paid in Puke, we’ve got spirit for Jamie Babbit’s 1999 satirical comedy, “But I’m a Cheerleader”, starring Natasha Lyonne, Clea Duvall, Melanie Lynskey, Cathy Moriarty, Katharine Towne, Mink Stole, RuPaul, Bud Cort, and for 5 seconds, a Dawson’s Creek-era Michelle Williams.

Special guest Kate Preusser, managing editor at Lookout Landing* joins us to talk about why this is one of two influential films from her early twenties (the other being Showgirls). Still, Kate had the most Hot Probs, in relation to representation and some of Megan’s toxic traits. 

Kate also brings to us some Fun Facts, as well as the not-so-fun bad takes from the (mostly cis male) critics of 1999 that saddled this delightful film with a low Rotty T score that persists to this day. 

Baxter’s offspring joins us on Keggers with Kids, and on the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal things we didn’t know about ourselves until someone else pointed it out.

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