Episode 144: Sleepless in Seattle

Aug 15, 2018

Summary:

 

"Go ahead and settle." This week we re-watch the 1993 rom-com classic Sleepless in Seattle, described by Andrea Warner as "a movie about a guy who's a little bit sexist and a woman who's a little bit bland." Also discussed: jade eggs, Rhona Raskin and In The Dark. 

 

Show notes:

 

Please don't put a jade egg into your vagina, say gynecologists (Health)

 

Sleepless in Seattle trailer

 

Rhona Raskin

 

What repercussions will the Meg Ryan / Russell Crowe affair have? (EW)

 

Kate & Leopold trailer

 

Meg Ryan IMDb

 

"The Sound of Settling" by Death Cab For Cutie

 

 

Recommendations:

 

Andrea: In The Dark (podcast) 

Lisa: Men Without Women (book)  

 

Music credits:

  

"Flutterbee" by Podington Bear
From Free Music Archive
CC BY 3.0

 

Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod

From Incompetch

CC BY 3.0

Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst

Courtesy of Free Music Archive

CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

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