October 14, 2025 Pop quiz, hotshot! As Emily tells Tracie this week, the 1994 film Speed is, in a word, BONKERS. This pop culture icon of the early 1990s not only gave us the impossible bus jump that we've always wanted from the movies and catapulted Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves to mega-stardom, but it also offered a pretty darn good romance plot in among the explosions, high-speed chases, baby carriages full of cans, and shockingly high body count. But as Emily found on t

October 07, 2025 I'm not sure that it's business of yours, but I do like to waltz with a log driver. Tracie and Emily welcome six-time...

September 30, 2025 Okay, Joan Wilder, write us out of this one. On this week's episode, Tracie revisits the 1984 film Romancing the...

And if I don't see you: Good afternoon, good evening, and good night! Peter Weir's 1998 film The Truman Show, based on a screenplay by...

September 16, 2025 When I was a little kid and I got scared, the Rain Man would come and sing to me. Join us this week as Tracie shares...

"It's like we say in St. Olaf—Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy." On this week's episode,...

September 2, 2025 You cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it. Ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love......

Hockety pockety wockety wack! Odds and ends and bric-a-brac! In revisiting this classic Disney animation from 1963, Tracie found that the...

August 19, 2025 "To die would be a grand adventure!" Emily is delighted to welcome her dear childhood friend--and lifelong Peter Pan...

August 12, 2025 Though it's now consistently named #1 on IMDB's top 250 list of classic movies, Frank Darabont's 1994 film The...

August 5, 2025 I have my eyes... I have my cunning... and I have my strength. This obscure sword-and-sorcery fantasy film from the early...

July 29, 2025 Draw me like one of your French girls... This week, Emily finally introduces Tracie to the pop culture juggernaut Titanic,...

July 22, 2025 It was a run-by fruiting! Revisiting the beloved 1993 Robin Williams film Mrs. Doubtfire this week was a reminder to Tracie...

July 16, 2025 Two things I love to do: fight and kiss boys! This week, Emily revisits another of the silly Pygmalion movies from the Guy...

July 8, 2025 So, what would you little maniacs like to do first? This week, Tracie takes a deep dive into Weird Science: yet another of...

July 1, 2025 Welcome to Earth. The 1996 Roland Emmerich-helmed film Independence Day was one of the touchstone movies for Emily's...

June 24, 2025 25 cents per day, plus expenses. No case too small! Adam Gwon, Emily's childhood friend and award-winning musical theater...

June 17, 2025 This is no dream! This is really happening! On this week's episode, Tracie and Emily are delighted to welcome award-winning...

June 10,2025 They're heeeeere! In a moment that would echo through the 42 years that followed, Tracie and Emily's father let the girls...

June 3, 2025 May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one. When Tracie first encountered the fan-favorite...