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Back after a mini, unexpected hiatus, we've got a new hot-and-ready episode for you!Prepare yourselves because we're about to get deep in our feelings as we begin our discussion on the show Dying for Sex starring Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate, and Rob Delaney.In this first of two episodes, we start off with our initial, non-spoilery reactions, think about how the show works from a genre and form perspective, and maybe rant a little about why one of the characters really sucks. Content warning: Dying for Sex deals with terminal illness and trauma related to SA. Because these themes are so woven into the show, we won't be able to provide specific timecodes for when they come up in our own discussion, but wanted to make sure you know going in. What's Sparking Joy this episode: Sinners and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Crunchyroll, Netflix)Episode was recorded April 20th, 2025Show Notes:Support us on Ko-Fi: ⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/sexlovelitpodcast⁠⁠The Dying for Sex Podcast: wondery.fm/DyingForSex Listen to our Joy Sparked: SLL Song Recs playlist: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/50MNBI1kYKdJgxh8CzEJF1?si=d9df62854c684557⁠Other lit mentioned this episode: Lost You Forever, The Fault in Our Stars, Fanta G Spot (Hit the Spot) K-drama Check out SLL Live in 2025:July 2025 - RomantiConn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.romanticonn.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠On Future SLL Episodes: Dying for Sex part 2 (on Hulu), Trope Spotlight: Forced Proximity, Frieren: Beyond Journey's EndDon't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SexLoveLitPodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠; on Instagram , Tumblr, and BlueSky @SexLoveLitPodcast. Support us on Ko-fi: ⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/sexlovelitpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr;Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US.Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

We're taking a trip back in time this episode to do a deep dive on the classic fairy tale retelling, Ever After: A Cinderella Story. We consider what makes something a Cinderella story and how Ever After maps onto those criteria; our reactions to the main romance; and the tour de force performance that is Angelica Huston as the Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent. What's Sparking Joy this episode: The Residence on Netflix, Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim, and "The Hills of Tanchico" from The Wheel of Time season 3.CW: Brief mention of the potential of SA from (1:14:58-1:15:10)Show Notes:Take the SLL Audience Survey! Closes April 30th, 2025: ⁠⁠https://forms.gle/AJhFuMDzjSZeTE1f8⁠⁠Support us on Ko-Fi: ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/sexlovelitpodcast⁠Linda Holmes's "A Girl, A Show, A Prince": https://www.npr.org/2015/03/13/392358854/a-girl-a-shoe-a-prince-the-endlessly-evolving-cinderella"The Hills of Tanchico" Clip: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIANPQJSAet/?igsh=MWhoczk0aHl4ZW92Zw==Listen to our Joy Sparked: SLL Song Recs playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/50MNBI1kYKdJgxh8CzEJF1?si=d9df62854c684557Other lit mentioned this episode: The Little Mermaid, Cinderelle, Spiceworld, Prince of Persia, The Great Check out SLL Live in 2025:April 2025 - Romance in CNY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://romanceincny.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠July 2025 - RomantiConn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.romanticonn.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠On Future SLL Episodes: Dying for Sex (on Hulu), Trope Spotlight: Forced Proximity.Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SexLoveLitPodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠; on Instagram , Tumblr, and BlueSky @SexLoveLitPodcast. Support us on Ko-fi: ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/sexlovelitpodcast⁠⁠⁠Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr;Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US.Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

Grab your hacksaw, lock picks  and balaclava and join the Silly History Boys for a historic crime spree...the prize? The Crown Jewels of England! Join the dashing Irish rogue Colonel Blood and his gang of idiots as they embark on a journey that will lead to one of the most daring (and frankly silly) robberies in British and Irish history! This ripping yarn takes us haring across battlements of Dublin Castle, through the seedy underbelly of restoration London and to a moonlight shoot out under the eves of the dreaded Tyburn gallows. Via a specialist coffee shop in Amsterdam! Then follow our gang of very silly rascals to to dreaded Tower of London itself! Will the crown of England be theirs....or has someone failed to bring an adequate bag Join us the Silly history boys for the funniest trip to the dungeon ever...       Music and SFX by or regular accomplices ZapSplat Big thanks to  Carsten Altena of info@sonargymusic.com, Danny Bradley, Brian Bolger and Dan Henig for their music  Big thanks to Lord Fast Fingers seeing nine consecutive life sentences for the intro music!  Music and SFX by or regular accomplices ZapSplat Big thanks to  Scott Buckley & Danny Bradley for music that we never used, but hey, we lean on them heavily so have some more thanks anyway.

We recorded a thicc episode for you this month with our special guest Sarah, one of the hosts of the podcast Afternoona Asks! Together, we get into the nitty-gritty of red flag and green flag characters and cover a lot of ground: from what makes a red flag red and a green flag green, to the surprising gender dynamics of “flagging” characters at all.Along the way, we mention a lot of our favorite love interests, including Baek Seon of When the Phone Rings, Mr. Gu of My Liberation Notes, Captain Ri of gateway KDrama Crash Landing on You, and many, many more. (If you want an SLL drinking game, take a sip every time Ayanni says "interesting"

It's time for our annual SLL tradition of rounding up the pop culture of the previous year! We start with what pop-culture is "sparking joy” in February,  our favorites of 2024, and what we're looking forward to in 2025.As a treat, Corinne's snark levels were very high this episode (lol).CW: Brief mention of S*icide from (1:06:51-1:06:54)Show Notes: Take the SLL Audience Survey! Closes March 28th, 2025: https://forms.gle/AJhFuMDzjSZeTE1f8 Support us on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/sexlovelitpodcast Check out Corinne's 2024 drama round ups on Tumblr: Korean Dramas: https://www.tumblr.com/starcrossed591/770716418956312576/kdrama-year-in-review-2024?source=share Chinese Dramas: https://www.tumblr.com/starcrossed591/771029764525916160/cdrama-year-in-review-2024?source=share Lit Mentioned By Section: What's Sparking Joy Feb 2025: The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst, Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater, and My Old Ass Joy Sparked in 2024 - Yoga with Kassandra (https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithkassandra), Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan, My Sweet Mobster (KDrama), As If Love Does Not Exist (Webtoon), Blossom (CDrama), Kaos, True Detective (Season 4), Someone to Build a Nest In by John Wiswell, Poor Things, Challengers, Build Mama a Coffin: An Old Gods of Appalachia story (https://www.oldgodsofappalachia.com/episodes/2020-02-06/build-mama-a-coffin-trailer/202002061153231909) Joy Sparked in 2024, Deep Dives - Lovely Runner (KDrama),The Princess Royal (CDrama), Look Back, Flow, Nosferatu (2024) Future Joy Sparked in 2025: Back After This by Linda Holmes, Wheel of Time (Season 3), Witch Hat Atelier anime, Sinners Others: Extraordinary You, Goblin, Romance of Tiger and Rose, Love Like the Galaxy, Flourished Peony, Abbott Elementary, Blue Box, My Happy Marriage, Apothecary Diaries, Toilet Bound Hanako-Kun, Perfect Marriage Revenge, Marry My Husband, The Wild Robot Check out SLL Live in 2025: April 2025 - Romance in CNY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://romanceincny.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ July 2025 - RomantiConn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.romanticonn.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠On Future SLL Episodes: Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, and Trope Spotlight: Forced Proximity.Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SexLoveLitPodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠; on Instagram , Tumblr, and BlueSky @SexLoveLitPodcast. Support us on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/sexlovelitpodcast⁠Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr;Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US.Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

Joined once again by our younger siblings, Erin and Akinde, we dive right into Sarah J Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses and A Court of Mist and Fury spoilers in part two of our discussion. To kick things off, we start with our complicated feelings on main character Feyre. We also ask the hard hitting questions, like: are these sex scenes sexy? Why is there so much growling? And what would actually happen if the wings of the Illyrians were really that sensitive? As a heads up for people who adore these books: we're not here to kill your vibe! Still, while we do appreciate a lot of what Maas is doing, as well as her wider influence on pop culture, we do have some bones to pick. Also, we drop a few spoilers for some of the later books, so if you care about spoilers for books 3, 4 or 5, please be forewarned! Sorry for the delay on this one, folks! January was a month...but we left a treat for you at the end of this episode to make up for it. Show Notes: What's Sparking Joy (music edition): "Guess" by Charli XCX featuring Billie Eilish; Sable by Bon Iver; Keeping Company by Bill Laurance and Michael League; Rosie by Rosé; "Symptom of Life" by Willow; "Otokonoke" by Creepy Nuts. Listen to these (and other) songs that have sparked joy on our Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/50MNBI1kYKdJgxh8CzEJF1?si=TA6c98XGQ2acsAC83BVfPA Other lit discussed this episode: Twilight & Fourth Wing The first ACOTAR episode: https://www.sexlovelitpodcast.com/e52-sarah-j-maas-romantasy-and-introducing-acotar-part-1-spoiler-free-theyre-fairies-and-the/ Correction: our yearly pop culture roundup will be recorded and posted in February, based on feedback from listeners. Check out SLL Live in 2025: April 2025 - Romance in CNY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://romanceincny.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ July 2025 - RomantiConn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.romanticonn.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ On Future SLL Episodes: What's Sparking Joy: 2024 Pop Culture Roundup, Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, and Trope Spotlight: Forced Proximity. Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SexLoveLitPodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠; on Instagram , Tumblr, and BlueSky @SexLoveLitPodcast. Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). TheSLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr;Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US. ACOTAR synopsis background music is "Nice Surprise" from Purple Planet Music (www.purple-planet.com). Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

You've asked, you've waited, and now, we're finally delivering! Welcome to our two-part deep dive on the international best selling Romantasy novels A Court of Thorns and Roses and a Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas.  In this first, spoiler free episode, we touch on our initial reactions to the series, and think a bit about what romantasy is and why it's so appealing to so many readers. Plus, we're joined by some very special guests for these two episodes: our younger siblings!  They may claim to have been manipulated into coming on the show, but we're glad to have them both on for this discussion

In case you haven't noticed, there's a lot going on *gestures everywhere*, so rather than get into anything too tragic, as we're wont to do, we've instead gathered some Comfort Media for Interesting Times (™)–that is, the pop culture we turn to when things are rough and we're in need of a boost to help us make it through. This episode, in the style of our Pop-Culture Round Ups, we trade off sharing cozy books, music, and TV shows that bolster our spirits and help us feel warm inside. Lit "rounded up" this Episode: Howl's Moving Castle (1986) by Diana Wynne Jones On a Sunbeam (2018) by Tillie Walden Eva Ibbotson's 5 romance book set in the early 1900's, but especially The Reluctant Heiress (1982)  A Countess Below Stairs  (1981) The Discographies of Maaya Sakamoto (Shounen Alice and Single Collection: Nikopachi (2003)) and Hikaru Utada (Bad Mode (2022) and Ultra Blue (2006) Show Notes: What's Sparking Joy: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, Blue Box (aka Aoi no Hako) on Netflix Other lit discussed this episode: Spinning by Tillie Walden, My Happy Marriage, The Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones, First Love (J-Drama) Correction: Tessa from The Reluctant Heiress is a staunch "republican," not "communist." Check out SLL Live in 2025: April 2025 - Romance in CNY: ⁠⁠⁠https://romanceincny.com/⁠⁠⁠ July 2025 - RomantiConn: ⁠⁠https://www.romanticonn.com/⁠⁠ On Future SLL Episodes: A Court of Thorns and Roses/A Court of Mist and Fury, Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, and Trope Spotlight: Forced Proximity. Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SexLoveLitPodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠; on Instagram , Tumblr, and BlueSky @SexLoveLitPodcast. Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). TheSLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr;Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

Sorry for the delay on this episode folks - October and November have been a lot. But, without further ado, here's Last Night at the Telegraph Club, episode two! Joined once again by Dr. Kai Chen, we dive right into Last Night at the Telegraph Club spoilers, starting with our feelings on Kath and Lily's relationship and the high-key stress of classroom makeouts. From there, we consider the queer space of the Telegraph Club, Lily's complicated and not always likable bestie Shirley, and our thoughts on the admittedly fraught ending. Show Notes: What's Sparking Joy: Bloom by (G)I-DLE, Crazy (feat Pink Pantheress) by LA SSERAFIM , Leon Other lit discussed this episode: How Sweet by NewJeans, Forever by Judy Blume, Crazy Rich Asians, Fellow Travelers, My Favorite Thing is Monsters Learn more about Dr. Chen's work on the UF University Writing Program website: https://writing.ufl.edu/directory/yukai-chen/ Support your local bookstore and Malinda Lo by getting Last Night the Telegraph Club and A Scattering of Light on Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/search?keywords=malinda+lo⁠ Code Switch - "They Don't Say Our Names Enough" - https://www.npr.org/2020/06/26/884080764/they-dont-say-our-names-enough The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s - ⁠https://bookshop.org/p/books/evening-crowd-at-kirmser-s-a-gay-life-in-the-1940s-ricardo-j-brown/9374706?ean=9780816636228⁠ The Body and Its Dangers & Other Stories - https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-body-and-its-dangers-other-stories-allen-barnett/20854353?ean=9781608642922 Check out SLL Live in 2025: April 2025 - Romance in CNY: ⁠⁠https://romanceincny.com/⁠⁠ July 2025 - RomantiConn: ⁠https://www.romanticonn.com/⁠ On Future SLL Episodes: A Court of Thorns and Roses/A Court of Mist and Fury, Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, and Trope Spotlight: Forced Proximity. Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠SexLoveLitPodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠; on Instagram and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcast. Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). TheSLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr;Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

    The challenges of Fall fishing   Tonight's show run down   Fishing Reports  15m   Hatcher Bros Erin (@femboyfishing) and Michael (@srien_string_and_stream) are catching smallies and trout and the occasional walleye in the Ozarks   Steve NcAngler says trout season is over in The White Mountains but one can still dredge up some nice browns in the catch and release section of the Androscoggin.  He's catching bass these days on Sneaky Pete's (topwater bullet head popper with a flared skirt and trailing sili strands) and for subsurface he likes Dragon Tails (a tail material called sili worm behind a built up head, originally cut down “Squirmy” toys)   The Driftless-some streams closed for the Fall spawn but plenty of creeks are open to catch and release and the tourists have gone home.  Fishing is solitary and they're smashing the terrestrials, some drys and streamers. https://news.orvis.com/fly-fishing/seasons-of-the-driftless-area   Joe Henry Fishing at Lake of the Woods is on fire!!! 6m FITN 10min John Gierach passed from a heart attack October 3rd 2024   Apache Trout Success:   https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-haaland-announces-removal-apache-trout-arizonas-state-fish-endangered   Maine Bans Painted Heads: https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/life/animals/wildlife/new-law-expands-maines-lead-fishing-tackle-ban-protect-loons/97-61c87bb3-687c-4610-839a-2ce5eb8fb7fa Laura Williams Maine Audubon Society 30 min   Show pt. 2 Halloween     Scary Fish: 15-20 min   Zombie Salmon-Yes they are catchable, some fight some do not, the scariest thing i have ever felt sorry for short of Frankenstien.  I find the grip and grin photos with them disquieting.   Peter Herman Adventures- https://youtu.be/C5AjppfOntc?si=5NzzCCLnY6v4j5vm     Candiru-sent in by our own Jeff Danaldson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(fish)   This is the one that legend says swims up one's urine stream right into the urethra.  It has never been confirmed.  In 1997 one was removed from a man's urethra but the circumstances were “suspect” which is a story just made for Fish Nerds.   Stonefish-this one scared the heck out of me when I was a little kid.  The most venomous fish of all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanceia   https://www.surfertoday.com/environment/how-to-treat-a-stonefish-sting     other entries: The Kraken Angler Fish Goblin Shark   My FAVORITE from Steve NcAngler is “the fish you hooked but never saw.”  It could have been anything! Listener spooky stories and other fisher freak outs:  15-20min   62% of respondents have had a weird or spooky incident on the water. 25% said it started scary but turned out to be something ordinary CH and the turtle   Chris Snodgrass My Wife and I were trolling for Kokanee Salmon. It was just before dark and we had the only boat on the water. It's a small reservoir in Montana. The water was like glass it was so calm. As we got out to the middle the water swirled next to the boat like a whale turned next to us. The swirl was as big or bigger than our boat. It was extremely creepy so we headed to the dock! Still not sure what the swirl was caused by but maybe an under water spring... It was in 50' of water though.   Alan Dumitrescu I'm the only person at this lake. You know the sound of a rod wishing through the air on a hard cast? Yeah that sounds happened in the wooded area behind me just once like a cast. Only similar sounds I've ever heard is bigger birds wings. I looked no birds anywhere no turkeys roosting in trees for the night. The sun was setting at this point. I didn't see anything but it was real close. My only other thought cause a bunch of neighboring property dogs were all fired up a few minutes earlier and they had settled down just before I heard it. Never heard bobcat hiss in person but at that point since they are in that area is all I could think and why the dogs were fired up. So I hurried the hell out of there. I'm not tangling with big kitty if that's what it was.   John J Murphy Well I grew up in Salem Ma and used to fish a cemetery pond so I'd go with yes   Phantom Casters From Rick Webster I was fishing the first beach at Sandy Hook in Jersey one late September. When I got to the parking lot and not another car in sight. I set up, soaking clams on two rods before sun-up. As the pre-dawn light began to show over the horizon, a THICK bank of fog rolled in. Slack tide and zero wind…very peaceful but not expecting anything spectacular. Suddenly, about 500 seagulls that had been resting on the roof of the bath house lifted into the air and began to dive nosily into the surf. The fog was so thick I couldn't see them, but I could hear them, not 20 yards off the beach. Figuring a blitz of snappers, I sent a 3-ounce Yo-Zuri popper into the fog and immediately came tight on what turned out to be a 12lb Albie. As I was fighting this fish, the fog began to lift and I could see I was surrounded by 25 to 30 other surfcasters. I had no clue how they suddenly appeared as this stretch of beach is wide open, so I would have seen them before the fog came in. No one spoke and the only sounds were screaming gulls and drags as we all enjoyed a rare mix of blues and albies for the next 30 minutes in a classic fall blitz. As the action died down, the fog rolled in again and I appeared to be all alone again. Since I was tired and a little spooked by the mornings events, I packed up my gear and headed back to the parking lot. Just like when I arrived, mine was the only car there. I have no idea where the other fishermen came from or how they disappeared and to this day, I'm not entirely convinced they were actually there. https://onthewater.com/spooky-fishing-stories   Aliens prefer fishers:   Pascagoula UFO Abduction  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascagoula_Abduction   See Entry 12:  https://skepticalinquirer.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2019/03/SI-MJ-12.pdf   Charles Hickson 42 Calvin Parker 19  Went fishing on the Pascagoula River Mississippi October 11th 1973     On the evening of October 11, 1973, 42-year old Charles Hickson and 19-year-old Calvin Parker went fishing on the west bank of the Pascagoula River.  As dusk fell, they heard a whirring/whizzing sound and saw flashes of blue light on the water.  They looked up to see an oval-shaped object approximately 30-40 feet across and 8-10 feet high.  Three creatures came gliding out of the craft and took them aboard.  Completely paralyzed but still conscious, the two men were subjected to a medical exam by a giant robotic eye.  They were then returned to shore, and the craft sped away into the night sky.    Both changed their stories over time.  Parker said he passed out but later claimed to remember certain details.  Hickson kept altering his story. The original polygraph on Hickson was given by an untrained operator as part of a commercial deal and there is speculation that it never really took place.   Drinking was believed to be part of the incident. Hypnagogic dream  paroxysmal sleep-related disorder incubus syndrome both fall in the category of parasominias   Still one of the best UFO stories out there.  There is a commemorative plaque marking the spot on the Pascagoula River where the incident took place    Should have been fishing   Thank Yous: Wally Pleasant for our show theme, Diana's Bath Salts for our Fish in the News theme, Dan Henig for his nice little tune Savannah Sunshine which we used on our chat with Laura Williams, Laren Duski for her instrumental Rollin' which we used to on the Lake of the Woods fishing report, Joe Henry for bringing us that report, Steve NcAngler and the Hatcher Brothers for their fishing reports, Laura Williams for being a lead free fishing ally, Chris Snograss, Alan Dumitrescue and John Murphy for their spooky fishing tales, Rick Webster for his legion of spirit surf casters story but especially you the listener for bringing your ears right on in here and letting us fill them up with fish stuff.    Fish Nerds is the creation of Diabolical Dave Kellum and Clay “Lamprey Mouth” Groves, Clay is also our Chief Executive “Flesh Eating” Fish Nerd, our producer and co-host is John “Jabberwocky” King, our demon horde of associate producers are Jeff “Devil Fly” Dannaldson, Todd “Black Cat” Corayer, Tim “Terror Hook” Bete and the cute friendly Wendy type witch flying above the wrack is our own Doc Martin.   Code of the Fish Nerds   Looks like we made a podcast  

In classic SLL fashion, I welcome you to another accidental two-part discussion. This time, we're joined by Dr. Kai Chen to discuss Malinda Lo's award-winning novel, Last Night at the Telegraph Club. This episode, we keep things spoiler free by first giving some context for the book and then our overall impressions. (Plus, we get a bonus visit from Ayanni's 20 year old family cat.) Show Notes: What's Sparking Joy: Kevin can F*** Himself (on Netflix), Mayonaka Punch (on Crunchyroll), Are You The One (on Viki), and Delicious in Dungeon (on Netflix) Other lit discussed this episode: Goodbye My Princess, Evangelion, Ashe (by Malinda Lo), My Favorite Thing is Monsters Learn more about Dr. Chen's work on the UF University Writing Program website: https://writing.ufl.edu/directory/yukai-chen/ Support your local bookstore and Malinda Lo by getting Last Night the Telegraph Club on Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/last-night-at-the-telegraph-club-malinda-lo/16520139?ean=9780525555278 Learn more Pen America and their various initiatives: https://pen.org/ Check out SLL Live in 2025: April 2025 - Romance in CNY: ⁠https://romanceincny.com/⁠ July 2025 - RomantiConn: https://www.romanticonn.com/ On Future SLL Episodes: Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, Trope Spotlight: Forced Proximity, and A Court of Thorns and Roses Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us at ⁠⁠⁠SexLoveLitPodcast.com⁠⁠⁠; on Instagram and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcast. Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). TheSLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr;Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

For our first episode of the new season, we thought we'd look to those who have got by with a little help from their friends. From footballing bromances to managerial partnerships, via striker partnerships and defensive duos, we explored those who agree that two heads (or two sets of feet) are better than one.Matt's Choices1. Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams2. Nihat and Darko Kovacevic3. Brian Clough and Peter TaylorMarc's Choices1. Harry Kane and Son Heung-Min2. Luka Modric and Toni Kroos3. Steve Bruce and Gary PallisterYou can find Matt on Twitter at @MattLostBoyo and Marc on Twitter at @MarcLostBoyo.And follow the podcast at @PlayedForKuwait.If you enjoyed the podcast, make sure to subscribe wherever you get your pods from and tell a friend about us. Also please leave us a review on your chosen podcast provider.Music: Chimez by Dan Henig

Welcome to our second episode on the Chinese Drama Lost You Forever, part 2! We jump right into Tushan Jing and Xiao Yao's relationship as the ostensible OTP of the show. From there, we consider just how sad our snake demon man Xiang Liu made us in his determination to push Xiao Yao away, as well as A'Nian's surprisingly poignant maturation arc. Lit Discussed this Episode: "Spring Snow" by 10 Centimeters, "Love Heart Cheat Code" by Hiatus Kaiyote, "Nightfalling" by John Park, Lovely Runner, Love Between Fairy and Devil(Plus, check out our new Spotify playlist that rounds up songs we love and that have sparked joy: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/50MNBI1kYKdJgxh8CzEJF1?si=SjvEqPF_RdS7Y5-AXDH5zg&pi=u-5IZPrM2xRc-N)Show Notes:You can listen to all the previous Lost You Forever episodes on your favorite podcast platforms: ​Season 2, Part 1: https://www.sexlovelitpodcast.com/e47-lost-you-forever-season-2-episode-1-of-2-a-lot-of-sad-weddings-in-this-one/​Season 1, Part 1 (no spoilers): https://www.sexlovelitpodcast.com/e35-lost-you-forever-season-1-mini-series-part-1-spoiler-free/​Season 1, Part 2: https://www.sexlovelitpodcast.com/e36-lost-you-forever-season-1-mini-series-part-2-spoiler-filled/​Season 1, Part 3: https://www.sexlovelitpodcast.com/e37-lost-you-forever-season-1-mini-series-part-3-spoiler-filled/Come see us LIVE at Romance in CNY: https://romanceincny.com/Planning for RomantiConn 2025 is already underway! ⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/351611412074474/⁠⁠⁠On Future SLL Episodes: Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Trope Spotlight: Forced Proximity, and A Court of Thorns and RosesDon't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us at ⁠⁠SexLoveLitPodcast.com⁠⁠; on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit; and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcastOur cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). TheSLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr;Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_USSex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

Your girls had a lot of feelings and a lot to say about the most recent installment of the Chinese drama Lost You Forever. So welcome to part one of our deep dive that starts with our overall reactions to the show. Then, we go into Cang Xuan and Xiao Yao's complicated relationship, and especially how some of the changes in adaptation from the novel affect how it all ties together at the end. Lit Discussed this Episode: Mayonaka Punch, The Earl Who Isn't, Love Like the Galaxy, Snowfall, Little Women (2019), Goodbye My Princess Show Notes: Come see us LIVE at Romance in CNY: https://romanceincny.com/ Planning for RomantiConn 2025 is already underway! ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/351611412074474/⁠⁠ You can listen to all the previous Lost You Forever episodes on your favorite podcast platforms: Part 1 (no spoilers): https://www.sexlovelitpodcast.com/e35-lost-you-forever-season-1-mini-series-part-1-spoiler-free/ Part 2: https://www.sexlovelitpodcast.com/e36-lost-you-forever-season-1-mini-series-part-2-spoiler-filled/ Part 3: https://www.sexlovelitpodcast.com/e37-lost-you-forever-season-1-mini-series-part-3-spoiler-filled/ On Future SLL Episodes: Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Trope Spotlight: Forced Proximity, and A Court of Thorns and Roses Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us at ⁠SexLoveLitPodcast.com⁠; on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit; and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcast Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

Due to circumstances entirely within our control, we interrupt your regularly scheduled SLL programming for a special summer edition of our What's Sparking Joy: Pop Culture Round Up.  In addition to checking in about what we've been watching, reading, and listening to so far this year, we each share three pieces of media that continue to live rent free in our heads. Lit Discussed this Episode: Lost You Forever Season 2 (no spoilers), Challengers, There's a Door in this Darkness, A Sign of Affection, The Princess Royal, The Bear, and The Midnight Romance in Hagwon Content Warning: Familial de*th is mentioned twice in this episode, at (26:12) and again at (48:40) Show Notes: Come visit Ayanni at the SLL table during RomantiConn this July! The vendors room is free to visit: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.eventbrite.com/e/romanticonn-2024-a-romance-author-signing-event-tickets-786820470207⁠⁠⁠ ; https://www.facebook.com/groups/351611412074474/ Other Lit Mentioned this Episode: Love Between Fairy and Devil; Crash Landing on You; My Dearest; Red, White and Royal Blue; The Legend of Shen Li; Wedding Impossible; Captivating the King; Bitterblue; Silent; Romance is a Bonus Book; One Spring Night; Something in the Rain; Crash Course in Romance On Future SLL Episodes: Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Trope Spotlight: Forced Proximity, and A Court of Thorns and Roses Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us at SexLoveLitPodcast.com; on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit; and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcast Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

Welcome to our second episode on Bridgerton, season three! Picking up where we left off, we jump right into close reading Polin's main sex scenes. From there, we think about what made us adore the side plots through discussion of Benedict, Francesca, and Violet's storylines this season.  Note: there are Bridgerton book spoilers from (37:36 - 38:14) and again from (39:27 - 39:47). Make sure to listen to part one of our season three discussion- E44 Bridgerton, Season 3: "I need some f*replay, okay?!" (Episode 1 of 2): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sexlovelit/episodes/E44-Bridgerton--Season-3-I-need-some-freplay--okay---Episode-1-of-2-e2ldc1t/a-abd482b Show Notes: Come visit Ayanni at the SLL table during RomantiConn this July: ⁠⁠https://www.eventbrite.com/e/romanticonn-2024-a-romance-author-signing-event-tickets-786820470207⁠⁠ Hear Corinne repping for SLL over on the VoxPopCast: ⁠https://voxpopcast.com/wp/2024/06/24/e324-unpacking-bridgerton-season-3-penelope-queerness-and-fandom-reactions/⁠ Other Lit Mentioned this episode: What's Sparking Joy: "Black Dog" by Taylor Swift, "Do 2 Me" by Kaytranada feat Anderson .Paak and SiR On Future SLL Episodes: Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, and A Court of Thorns and Roses Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit, and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcast Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

Members of the ton rejoice! Both halves of Bridgerton, season three have finally dropped. We had so many thoughts about this latest installment of the regency romance series that–just like Netflix–we split our conversation in two. In this first episode, we consider the season as a whole, break down Pen and Colin's long awaited transition from friends to lovers, and start to craft "Bridgerton, Season Three: the Corinne and Ayanni Cut." The second part of our conversation drops on Saturday, June 29th. Show Notes: Come visit Ayanni at the SLL table during RomantiConn this July: ⁠https://www.eventbrite.com/e/romanticonn-2024-a-romance-author-signing-event-tickets-786820470207⁠ Hear Corinne repping for SLL over on the VoxPopCast: https://voxpopcast.com/wp/2024/06/24/e324-unpacking-bridgerton-season-3-penelope-queerness-and-fandom-reactions/ Other Lit Mentioned this episode: What's Sparking Joy: Last Night at the Telegraph Club and Meet Yourself (Chinese Drama) Because This is My First Life, My Liberation Notes, Pop Culture Happy Hour On Future SLL Episodes: Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, and A Court of Thorns and Roses Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit, and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcast Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

Time for the third installment of our divorce comedy mini-series! While we didn't initially plan to include this show, we're talking about the recently concluded Korean drama Queen of Tears. We consider whether or not the show is actually a divorce comedy at all, how it deploys divorce in the development of the main relationship, and what about this second chance romance really resonates. We also touch on some of the other things that did–and didn't–work for us in the drama as a whole. Content warning: Because of the nature of the show we're discussing, there are mentions of fictional s*icide at 9:50, 11:41, and 40:44; discussion of a fictional miscarriage starting at 43:20; and discussion of fictional terminal illness throughout. Show Notes: Come visit Ayanni at the SLL table during RomantiConn this July: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/romanticonn-2024-a-romance-author-signing-event-tickets-786820470207 Read Corinne's Tumblr post on Drama Recs for KDrama Beginners: https://www.tumblr.com/sexlovelitpodcast/747784569802080256/sex-love-lit-girlies-i-watched-crash-landing-on?source=share Other Lit Mentioned this episode: Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon), Twenty Sided Tavern, Baulder's Gate, Dungeons and Dragons, The Guy She's Interested in isn't a Guy at All; Lovely Runner, Crash Landing on You, Cinderella and the Four Knights, My Love From Another Star, Legend of the Deep Blue Sea, Gaus Electronics, Let's Talk About Chu, Mine, Little Women, Vincenzo, The Interest of Love On Future SLL Episodes: Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, and A Court of Thorns and Roses Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit, and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcast Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US SLL is a podcast relishing the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in pop-culture. English academics by day and podcasters by night, hosts Ayanni and Corinne take a semi-scholarly look at why the “sex-stuff” in media matters in the bedroom—and beyond.

Welcome to the second installment of our divorce comedy mini-series! This episode, we're talking about the 2023 Korean Drama Doctor Cha. We get into her messy, maddening marriage, why her husband belongs in the trash, and the rewards of watching our leading lady find herself again. Content warning: brief mention of s*icidal ideation @ 32:03 Show Notes: Other Lit Mentioned this episode: Apothecary Diaries, Lost Your Forever, Legend of Shen Li, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Because This is My First Life, Fight for My Way, Our Blues, A Witch's Love On Future SLL Episodes: Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, and A Court of Thorns and Roses Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit, and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcast Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US SLL is a podcast relishing the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in pop-culture. English academics by day and podcasters by night, hosts Ayanni and Corinne take a semi-scholarly look at why the “sex-stuff” in media matters in the bedroom—and beyond.

Welcome to our mini-series on Divorce Comedies! Over the next 4-ish episodes, we're exploring this genre that caught us off guard with how much its makes us laugh, cry, and yell divorce! In this introductory episode, rather than focus on any one show, we get into the defining features of divorce comedies, why we wanted to talk about them, and whether or not they can be counted as rom coms. Show Notes: Other Lit Mentioned this episode: Lost You Forever, WWE: Wrestlemania, Nettle & Bone, The Legend of Shen Li, Romance is a Bonus Book, Grace and Frankie, Crazy Stupid Love, Let's Get Divorced, 500 Days of Summer, Stranger's Again, Mine, Rinko-San Wants to Try, Be Melodramatic On Future SLL Episodes: Dr. Cha, Strangers Again, and Let's Get Divorced, and A Court of Thorns and Roses Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit, and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcast Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US SLL is a podcast relishing the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in pop-culture. English academics by day and podcasters by night, hosts Ayanni and Corinne take a semi-scholarly look at why the “sex-stuff” in media matters in the bedroom—and beyond.

"See, on the road to Hell there was a railroad line..." It's time for a deep dive into the Broadway musical, Hadestown. We get into how the musical adapts the Grek myths of Orpheus and Eurydice & Hades and Persephone for a modern setting; the love stories–and tragedy–of the two core relationships; and the productive ambiguity of seeing it all happen on stage.  Content Warning: Discussions of S*xual Assault from (1:06:41 - 1:14:05) Show Notes: Other Lit Mentioned this episode: The Story of Ming Lang, Lore Olympus, When I Arrived at the Castle, Speak, Beka Cooper Trilogy, Alanna the Lioness Quartet On Future SLL Episodes: Divorce Comedies (featuring Dr. Cha, Strangers Again, and Let's Get Divorced), and A Court of Thorns and Roses Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit, and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcast Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US SLL is a podcast relishing the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in pop-culture. English academics by day and podcasters by night, hosts Ayanni and Corinne take a semi-scholarly look at why the “sex-stuff” in media matters in the bedroom—and beyond.

On the 120th episode of The Let's Talk Movies Podcast, we're talking a whole bunch of movie and TV news, taking your questions live on the show, and breaking down the newest trailers for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Deadpool and Wolverine, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Twisters, and More! . . New episodes of our shows premiere every week - Now available in both audio AND video format on YouTube, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads! @LTMPodcastKY Join the LTM Community Group on Facebook! Search 'Let's Talk Movies YouTube Channel - Community Page' within the Facebook app and join the LTM family! facebook.com/groups/1700856683645889 Find us on Spotify! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8 For business inquiries: letstalkmovies6@gmail.com Our intro themes: Subway Dreams by Dan Henig https://www.youtube.com/@sirdannytrolls/videos, Dead Forest by Brian Bolger https://youtu.be/oa7deK7ndCg, & Searching for You by White Hex https://youtu.be/ALSL0OehZBI (Provided by the YouTube Audio Library) (Copyright Disclaimer: We do not intend to infringe on anyone's content ownership. We believe that all content used within this video falls under Fair Use (Section 107 of the Copyright Act). Let's Talk Movies does not own any of the pictures, music, or footage used within this video.) Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOfXM8v5JLr7HhMJrghiRYg Our shows: Let's Talk Movies: We're two lifelong friends that love to talk all things movies, TV, and everything in between - Marvel, DC, Horror, and MORE! Pop some popcorn, grab a cold drink, and let's talk movies. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJGY0EjN2eaZj3qDlh3oI9D8 Purely & Simply Evil: Horror. Whether it's watching 80's Slashers terrorize a group of teens, everyday people surviving a post-apocalyptic world overrun with zombies, or demonic possessions, ghostly hauntings, and everything in between, there's something about the horror movie genre that captivates us. In Purely & Simply Evil - A Let's Talk Movies Podcast, we're revisiting classic horror films like never before. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJG6v-aQbHIk9B14VgHDEMuj Classics Revisited: Join us as we revisit classic films from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and today! We'll share our thoughts and talk about each movie via a live commentary as we watch and talk with you! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJEpoJ-TtO3M9Ko1gWz1_ie5 Thanks for watching! #LetsTalkMoviesPodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8/message

The first episode of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live aired on AMC this past Sunday, and it did NOT disappoint. TWD is back in full force with the highly anticipated (and long-awaited) return of Andrew Lincoln's Rick Grimes to the world of The Walking Dead. At it's core, this first episode (which felt more like a feature film rather than a TV pilot) is a story of grit, determination, and brokenness; a longing for what you cannot have. This is a tale of mental health and emotional intensity that happens to take place within the horrors of the zombie apocalypse. The CRM is bigger and more immense that we ever could have imagined, and it looks like after the remaining five episodes of this series, The Walking Dead Universe will never be the same again. Here's our full spoiler-filled review! Better late than never! . . New episodes of our shows premiere every week - Now available in both audio AND video format on YouTube, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads! @LTMPodcastKY Join the LTM Community Group on Facebook! Search 'Let's Talk Movies YouTube Channel - Community Page' within the Facebook app and join the LTM family! facebook.com/groups/1700856683645889 Find us on Spotify! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8 For business inquiries: letstalkmovies6@gmail.com Our intro themes: Subway Dreams by Dan Henig https://www.youtube.com/@sirdannytrolls/videos, Dead Forest by Brian Bolger https://youtu.be/oa7deK7ndCg, & Searching for You by White Hex https://youtu.be/ALSL0OehZBI (Provided by the YouTube Audio Library) (Copyright Disclaimer: We do not intend to infringe on anyone's content ownership. We believe that all content used within this video falls under Fair Use (Section 107 of the Copyright Act). Let's Talk Movies does not own any of the pictures, music, or footage used within this video.) Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOfXM8v5JLr7HhMJrghiRYg Our shows: Let's Talk Movies: We're two lifelong friends that love to talk all things movies, TV, and everything in between - Marvel, DC, Horror, and MORE! Pop some popcorn, grab a cold drink, and let's talk movies. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJGY0EjN2eaZj3qDlh3oI9D8 Purely & Simply Evil: Horror. Whether it's watching 80's Slashers terrorize a group of teens, everyday people surviving a post-apocalyptic world overrun with zombies, or demonic possessions, ghostly hauntings, and everything in between, there's something about the horror movie genre that captivates us. In Purely & Simply Evil - A Let's Talk Movies Podcast, we're revisiting classic horror films like never before. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJG6v-aQbHIk9B14VgHDEMuj Classics Revisited: Join us as we revisit classic films from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and today! We'll share our thoughts and talk about each movie via a live commentary as we watch and talk with you! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJEpoJ-TtO3M9Ko1gWz1_ie5 Thanks for watching! #LetsTalkMoviesPodcast #TWD #TWDTheOnesWhoLive #TheWalkingDead #TheOnesWhoLive #RickGrimes #Michonne --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8/message

Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleep (2019) is widely considered to be one of the greatest horror sequels of all time. It pulled off a pretty incredible feat, considering that its a direct sequel to arguably the most influential horror film of all time - Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Quite frankly, this movie has no business being as good as it is, but its truly one of the best sequels to any film in any genre from the last 50 years. Let's watch it! . . New episodes of our shows premiere every week - Now available in both audio AND video format on YouTube, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads! @LTMPodcastKY Join the LTM Community Group on Facebook! Search 'Let's Talk Movies YouTube Channel - Community Page' within the Facebook app and join the LTM family! facebook.com/groups/1700856683645889 Find us on Spotify! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8 For business inquiries: letstalkmovies6@gmail.com Our intro themes: Subway Dreams by Dan Henig https://www.youtube.com/@sirdannytrolls/videos, Dead Forest by Brian Bolger https://youtu.be/oa7deK7ndCg, & Searching for You by White Hex https://youtu.be/ALSL0OehZBI (Provided by the YouTube Audio Library) (Copyright Disclaimer: We do not intend to infringe on anyone's content ownership. We believe that all content used within this video falls under Fair Use (Section 107 of the Copyright Act). Let's Talk Movies does not own any of the pictures, music, or footage used within this video.) Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOfXM8v5JLr7HhMJrghiRYg Our shows: Let's Talk Movies: We're two lifelong friends that love to talk all things movies, TV, and everything in between - Marvel, DC, Horror, and MORE! Pop some popcorn, grab a cold drink, and let's talk movies. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJGY0EjN2eaZj3qDlh3oI9D8 Purely & Simply Evil: Horror. Whether it's watching 80's Slashers terrorize a group of teens, everyday people surviving a post-apocalyptic world overrun with zombies, or demonic possessions, ghostly hauntings, and everything in between, there's something about the horror movie genre that captivates us. In Purely & Simply Evil - A Let's Talk Movies Podcast, we're revisiting classic horror films like never before. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJG6v-aQbHIk9B14VgHDEMuj Classics Revisited: Join us as we revisit classic films from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and today! We'll share our thoughts and talk about each movie via a live commentary as we watch and talk with you! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJEpoJ-TtO3M9Ko1gWz1_ie5 Thanks for watching! #LetsTalkMoviesPodcast #DoctorSleep #TheShining #Horror --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8/message

Corinne wasn't feeling well this week, so Ayanni called in the cavalry. This episode, she's joined by her spouse (and friend of the show) Andrew Cooper to talk about the new action-dramedy series, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. They give their general impressions, think about the series' adaptation choices, and muse about the show's depiction of married life.  Show Notes: Other Lit Mentioned this episode: Jujutsu Kaisen, Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse, Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2009), Skip and Loafer, Dungeon Meshi, Tell Me That You Love Me, Let's Talk About Chu, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Ironman, Pen15, Blue Eyed Samurai, Pluto, Atlanta On Future SLL Episodes: Hadestown, Divorce Comedies, and A Court of Thornes and Roses Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit, and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcast Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US SLL is a podcast relishing the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in pop-culture. English academics by day and podcasters by night, hosts Ayanni and Corinne take a semi-scholarly look at why the “sex-stuff” in media matters in the bedroom—and beyond. Episode Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:07 Saying Hi to Andrew 05:51 What's Sparking Joy 15:20 Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Smith 19:54 First Impressions 24:43 Spoiler Discussion Begins 1:05:47 Coming Up on SLL

Saviors may be my new favorite Green Day record, and I'm not afraid to say it. That's right. As a lifelong fan of Green Day and their music, this new album hits in all the right ways. It's a major return to form in concept, while simultaneously daring to push the boundaries of the traditional punk rock sound. It tackles politics, the nuances (and simplicities) of love, mental health, the legacy of rock and roll, and the continuously changing times that are only getting stranger. Green Day rules the punk rock scene, and Saviors proves that even 30 years after the release of their breakout album, Dookie (1994), AND 20 years after their rock-opera masterpiece, American Idiot (2004) changed the music world, they've still got it. Strange days are indeed here to stay. And so is Green Day. Here's my full track-by-track review! Check it out on YouTube! https://youtu.be/X3AMew1EVM8 **All music and tracks belong to Warner Records and Green Day. Let's Talk Movies does not own any of the pictures, music, or footage used within this video.** . . New episodes of our shows premiere every week - Now available in both audio AND video format on YouTube, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads! @LTMPodcastKY Join the LTM Community Group on Facebook! Search 'Let's Talk Movies YouTube Channel - Community Page' within the Facebook app and join the LTM family! facebook.com/groups/1700856683645889 Find us on Spotify! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8 For business inquiries: letstalkmovies6@gmail.com Our intro themes: Subway Dreams by Dan Henig https://www.youtube.com/@sirdannytrolls/videos, Dead Forest by Brian Bolger https://youtu.be/oa7deK7ndCg, & Searching for You by White Hex https://youtu.be/ALSL0OehZBI (Provided by the YouTube Audio Library) (Copyright Disclaimer: We do not intend to infringe on anyone's content ownership. We believe that all content used within this video falls under Fair Use (Section 107 of the Copyright Act). Let's Talk Movies does not own any of the pictures, music, or footage used within this video.) Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOfXM8v5JLr7HhMJrghiRYg Our shows: Let's Talk Movies: We're two lifelong friends that love to talk all things movies, TV, and everything in between - Marvel, DC, Horror, and MORE! Pop some popcorn, grab a cold drink, and let's talk movies. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJGY0EjN2eaZj3qDlh3oI9D8 Purely & Simply Evil: Horror. Whether it's watching 80's Slashers terrorize a group of teens, everyday people surviving a post-apocalyptic world overrun with zombies, or demonic possessions, ghostly hauntings, and everything in between, there's something about the horror movie genre that captivates us. In Purely & Simply Evil - A Let's Talk Movies Podcast, we're revisiting classic horror films like never before. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJG6v-aQbHIk9B14VgHDEMuj Classics Revisited: Join us as we revisit classic films from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and today! We'll share our thoughts and talk about each movie via a live commentary as we watch and talk with you! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJEpoJ-TtO3M9Ko1gWz1_ie5 Thanks for watching! #LetsTalkMoviesPodcast #GreenDay #Saviors #Punk #Music #PunkRock --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8/message

Happy New Year, y'all! We continue our annual tradition of checking in about what pop-culture is "sparking joy” in January,  our favorites of 2023, and what we're looking forward to in 2024. (CW: discussion of parental and sibling death.) Oh, and did we mention we have a tumblr now? www.tumblr.com/sexlovelitpodcast Show Notes: Check out Charcooll--the awesome artist who did our cover art-- on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/) and on RedBubble (https://www.redbubble.com/people/charcooll/shop?asc=u) Lit Mentioned By Section: What's Sparking Joy: Lady Liar, Ms. Abbott and the Doctor, Link: Eat Love Kill Joy Sparked in 2023 - Rapid Fire: Lost You Forever, The Boy and the Heron, Kiss Bet, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse, The Story of Kunning Palace, American Fiction, The Marquis Who Musn't, Being Monsters, Till the End of the Moon, A Guest in the House Joy Sparked in 2023 - Deep Dive: Call it Love, Ancillary Justice, A Journey to Love, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Future Joy Sparked in 2024: Lost You Forever: Part 2, The Prisoner of Beauty, All There Is (podcast), Jeong Nyeon, Baulders Gate 3 Others: What If...?, The Marvels, Let's Get Divorced, Dr. Cha, Strangers Again Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit, and on Tumblr @SexLoveLitPodcast Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠). The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US SLL is a podcast relishing the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in pop-culture. English academics by day and podcasters by night, hosts Ayanni and Corinne take a semi-scholarly look at why the “sex-stuff” in media matters in the bedroom—and beyond. Episode Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:58 Opening Bander 09:11 What's Sparking Joy 16:37 2023 Joy Sparked - Rapid Fire 36:06 2023 Joy Sparked - Deeper Dive 1:02:37 Looking Forward to 2024 Joy 1:14:24 Pop-Culture Predictions 1:22:28 Closing Out/Future SLL Episodes

Join us for a live watch-along of Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining. New episodes of our shows premiere every week - Now available in both audio AND video format on YouTube, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads! @LTMPodcastKY Join the LTM Community Group on Facebook! Search 'Let's Talk Movies YouTube Channel - Community Page' within the Facebook app and join the LTM family! facebook.com/groups/1700856683645889 Find us on Spotify! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8 For business inquiries: letstalkmovies6@gmail.com Our intro themes: Subway Dreams by Dan Henig https://www.youtube.com/@sirdannytrolls/videos, Dead Forest by Brian Bolger https://youtu.be/oa7deK7ndCg, & Searching for You by White Hex https://youtu.be/ALSL0OehZBI (Provided by the YouTube Audio Library) (Copyright Disclaimer: We do not intend to infringe on anyone's content ownership. We believe that all content used within this video falls under Fair Use (Section 107 of the Copyright Act). Let's Talk Movies does not own any of the pictures, music, or footage used within this video.) Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOfXM8v5JLr7HhMJrghiRYg Our shows: Let's Talk Movies: We're two lifelong friends that love to talk all things movies, TV, and everything in between - Marvel, DC, Horror, and MORE! Pop some popcorn, grab a cold drink, and let's talk movies. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJGY0EjN2eaZj3qDlh3oI9D8 Purely & Simply Evil: Horror. Whether it's watching 80's Slashers terrorize a group of teens, everyday people surviving a post-apocalyptic world overrun with zombies, or demonic possessions, ghostly hauntings, and everything in between, there's something about the horror movie genre that captivates us. In Purely & Simply Evil - A Let's Talk Movies Podcast, we're revisiting classic horror films like never before. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJG6v-aQbHIk9B14VgHDEMuj Classics Revisited: Join us as we revisit classic films from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and today! We'll share our thoughts and talk about each movie via a live commentary as we watch and talk with you! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJEpoJ-TtO3M9Ko1gWz1_ie5 Thanks for watching! #LetsTalkMoviesPodcast #TheShining #Horror #StephenKing #StanleyKubrick --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8/message

"He didn't get out of THE COCKADOODIE CAR!!!" On the 28th episode of Purely and Simply Evil - a Let's Talk Movies horror podcast, we're talking the 1990 adaptation of Stephen King's MISERY, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Kathy Bates and James Cann. Check out our full watch-along HERE! https://www.youtube.com/live/FfRCiL8YMHY?si=d_E-PlvobbUh33TF . . New episodes of our shows premiere every week - Now available in both audio AND video format on YouTube, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads! @LTMPodcastKY Join the LTM Community Group on Facebook! Search 'Let's Talk Movies YouTube Channel - Community Page' within the Facebook app and join the LTM family! facebook.com/groups/1700856683645889 Find us on Spotify! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8 For business inquiries: letstalkmovies6@gmail.com Our intro themes: Subway Dreams by Dan Henig https://www.youtube.com/@sirdannytrolls/videos, Dead Forest by Brian Bolger https://youtu.be/oa7deK7ndCg, & Searching for You by White Hex https://youtu.be/ALSL0OehZBI (Provided by the YouTube Audio Library) (Copyright Disclaimer: We do not intend to infringe on anyone's content ownership. We believe that all content used within this video falls under Fair Use (Section 107 of the Copyright Act). Let's Talk Movies does not own any of the pictures, music, or footage used within this video.) Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOfXM8v5JLr7HhMJrghiRYg Our shows: Let's Talk Movies: We're two lifelong friends that love to talk all things movies, TV, and everything in between - Marvel, DC, Horror, and MORE! Pop some popcorn, grab a cold drink, and let's talk movies. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJGY0EjN2eaZj3qDlh3oI9D8 Purely & Simply Evil: Horror. Whether it's watching 80's Slashers terrorize a group of teens, everyday people surviving a post-apocalyptic world overrun with zombies, or demonic possessions, ghostly hauntings, and everything in between, there's something about the horror movie genre that captivates us. In Purely & Simply Evil - A Let's Talk Movies Podcast, we're revisiting classic horror films like never before. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJG6v-aQbHIk9B14VgHDEMuj Classics Revisited: Join us as we revisit classic films from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and today! We'll share our thoughts and talk about each movie via a live commentary as we watch and talk with you! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJEpoJ-TtO3M9Ko1gWz1_ie5 Thanks for watching! #LetsTalkMoviesPodcast #Misery --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8/message

Happy New Year! In our first live show of the new year, we're celebrating three years of Let's Talk Movies and talking our most anticipated movies of 2024! What movies are YOU looking forward to the most in 2024!? Be sure to leave us a comment down below! . . New episodes of our shows premiere every week - Now available in both audio AND video format on YouTube, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads! @LTMPodcastKY Join the LTM Community Group on Facebook! Search 'Let's Talk Movies YouTube Channel - Community Page' within the Facebook app and join the LTM family! facebook.com/groups/1700856683645889 Find us on Spotify! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8 For business inquiries: letstalkmovies6@gmail.com Our intro themes: Subway Dreams by Dan Henig https://www.youtube.com/@sirdannytrolls/videos, Dead Forest by Brian Bolger https://youtu.be/oa7deK7ndCg, & Searching for You by White Hex https://youtu.be/ALSL0OehZBI (Provided by the YouTube Audio Library) (Copyright Disclaimer: We do not intend to infringe on anyone's content ownership. We believe that all content used within this video falls under Fair Use (Section 107 of the Copyright Act). Let's Talk Movies does not own any of the pictures, music, or footage used within this video.) Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOfXM8v5JLr7HhMJrghiRYg Our shows: Let's Talk Movies: We're two lifelong friends that love to talk all things movies, TV, and everything in between - Marvel, DC, Horror, and MORE! Pop some popcorn, grab a cold drink, and let's talk movies. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJGY0EjN2eaZj3qDlh3oI9D8 Purely & Simply Evil: Horror. Whether it's watching 80's Slashers terrorize a group of teens, everyday people surviving a post-apocalyptic world overrun with zombies, or demonic possessions, ghostly hauntings, and everything in between, there's something about the horror movie genre that captivates us. In Purely & Simply Evil - A Let's Talk Movies Podcast, we're revisiting classic horror films like never before. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJG6v-aQbHIk9B14VgHDEMuj Classics Revisited: Join us as we revisit classic films from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and today! We'll share our thoughts and talk about each movie via a live commentary as we watch and talk with you! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrBkV__pOJEpoJ-TtO3M9Ko1gWz1_ie5 Thanks for watching! #LetsTalkMoviesPodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-talk-movies8/message

CW: Discussion of s*xual assault, and brief mentions of drugging and s*icide, from 1:00:27 – 1:04:15 You've made it to the third and final installment of our semi-accidental mini-series on the Chinese Drama, Lost You Forever. (You either really like us, or you really like Lost You Forever, and we appreciate you either way.) We know you've been waiting for it, so this episode, we finally get to the last three main players fighting for Xiaoyao's heart: Fenglong of the Central Plains; Xiang Liu, everyone's favorite nine-headed sea snake demon man; and last but certainly not least, Tushan Jing, soft beta baby boy of the year. Don't forget to listen to part one, "E35 Lost You Forever Season 1 (Mini-Series Part 1, Spoiler Free)," and part two, “E36 Lost You Forever Season 1 (Mini-Series Part 2, Spoiler Filled),” if you haven't already. Show Notes: Lost You Forever Soundtrack (on Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/album/6opCSvYhh5CiAioySGp0Nm?si=7a6e1432558947d0 Other lit mentioned this episode: Till the End of the Moon Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US SLL is a podcast relishing the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in pop-culture. English academics by day and podcasters by night, hosts Ayanni and Corinne take a semi-scholarly look at why the “sex-stuff” in media matters in the bedroom—and beyond. Episode Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:24 Opening Bander 02:32 What's Sparking Joy 6:30 Fenglong doesn't stand a chance 17:58 It's thirsting for Xiang Liu hours 41:14 Poor, sweet Tushan Jing 1:06:30 Some Final Thoughts 1:14:38 Closing Out

We're continuing our three-part mini-series on Lost You Forever by diving right into a truck load of spoilers! In honor of the reverse harem-ness at all, we organized our discussion around leading lady, Xiaoyao, and her four suitors. This episode, we start with Xiaoyao herself–and her many abandonment issues. Then, we get into our complicated feelings about her charming, ambitious cousin, Cang Xuan and his dangerous pursuit of the throne. As a treat (for Corinne), we also talk about Xiaoyao's bratty half-sister, A'nian, because she's the worst (and the best). Don't worry Fangfeng Bei and Tushan Jing fans, stay tuned for part three of our discussion for our hot takes on the rest of the harem. Don't forget to listen to part one, "E35 Lost You Forever Season 1 (Mini-Series Part 1, Spoiler Free)," if you haven't already. Show Notes: Lost You Forever Soundtrack (on Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/album/6opCSvYhh5CiAioySGp0Nm?si=7a6e1432558947d0 "You & Me" by Jennie (on Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/track/6gcuJpHu0Ey30D5WR76y98 Other lit mentioned this episode: Crash Landing on You, You & Me by Jennie, Pharaohs by SBTRKT, Goodbye My Princess Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License;  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US SLL is a podcast relishing the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in pop-culture. English academics by day and podcasters by night, hosts Ayanni and Corinne take a semi-scholarly look at why the “sex-stuff” in media matters in the bedroom—and beyond. Episode Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:32 Opening Bander 07:17 What's Sparking Joy 12:51 Starting with Xiaoyao 31:58 Cang Xuan Time 51:44 Closing Out

This episode, on the recommendation of an SLL listener, we're excited to do a deep dive into the Japanese Drama, Rinko-San Wants to Try. We get into how the show complicates conceptions of virginity, plays with the friends with benefits trope, and maybe get in our feelings a lil bit about a second female lead who really got under Ayanni's skin. As two people who study, analyze, and have a literal podcast about media, we stand in solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike–along with their counterparts in other industries/countries, who also deserve fair wages and labor protections–none of the works we discuss here or in other episodes would exist. Lit discussed this episode: Get Up EP by NewJeans, Pop Culture Happy Hour (this episode specifically: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/15/1193958358/newjeans-is-a-new-kind-of-k-pop-juggernaut), My Dearest, Hit the Spot, Because This is My First Life, Lost You Forever, Friends With Benefits, No Strings Attached, Nevertheless..., Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Sex Education Bonus reading (aka works cited & consulted): Jones, Gretchen. "'Ladies' Comics': Japan's Not-So-Underground Market in Pornography for Women." U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, English Supplement, no. 22, 2002, pp. 3-31. Lieber-Milo, S. “Cute at an Older Age: A Case Study of Otona-Kawaii”. Mutual Images Journal, no. 10, Dec. 2021, pp. 93-108, doi:10.32926/2021.10.lie.otona. Sato, Kumiko. "From Hello Kitty to Code Row Kewpie: A Postwar Cultural History of Cuteness in Japan." Asian Intercultural Contacts, vol. 14, no. 2, 2009. https://www.asianstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/from-hello-kitty-to-cod-roe-kewpie-a-postwar-cultural-history-of-cuteness-in-japanA.pdf Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License;  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Recorded September 2023 SLL is a podcast relishing the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in pop-culture. English academics by day and podcasters by night, hosts Ayanni and Corinne take a semi-scholarly look at why the “sex-stuff” in media matters in the bedroom—and beyond.

We're tackling a big topic in our two part discussion on “the female gaze.” What is the female gaze and why does it matter? In this first episode, we establish some context for the term by getting into the history of the “gaze” as a concept, the psychoanalytic origins of the Male Gaze as theorized by Laura Mulvey, and how the oppositional gaze, as coined by bell hooks, makes space for alternative ways of looking and being looked at. You can listen to "E32 The Female Gaze (Part 2): Complication and Expansion" right now! A quick editorial note: We incorrectly mention that polo originated in China. Sources consider what would be modern day Iran as the location of origin for the game. As two people who study, analyze, and have a literal podcast about media, we stand in solidarity with the WAG and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike–along with their counterparts in other industries/countries, who also deserve fair wages and labor protections– none of the works we discuss here or in other episodes would exist. Lit discussed this episode: Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, Vincenzo, The Story of Ming Lan Bonus reading (aka works cited & consulted): Bowers, Susan R. “Medusa and the Female Gaze.” NWSA Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, 1990, pp. 217-235.   Benson-Allott, Caetlin. “No Such Think Not Yet: Questioning Television's Female Gaze.” Film Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 2, 2017, pp. 65-71. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/FQ.2017.71.2.65. Forster, Stefani. “Yes, there's such a thing as a ‘female gaze.' But it's not what you think.” Medium. !2 Jun 2018. Accessed 13 February 2020. https://medium.com/truly-social/yes-theres-such-a-thing-as-a-female-gaze-but-it-s-not-what-you-think-d27be6fc2fed. Dyhouse, Carol. Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire. Oxford University Press, 2017. Hemmann, Kathryn. "Queering the Media Mix: The Female Gaze in Japanese Fan Comics." Transformative Works and Cultures, no 20, 2015. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0628. hooks, bell. "The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators." Black Looks: Race and Representation, Routledge, 2014. Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Visual and Other Pleasures, Indiana University Press, 1989. Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License;  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

This is the second episode of our two part discussion on the Female Gaze. Since we laid some groundwork and gave some context in part one, this time around, we dive right in. In thinking through “the female gaze,” we ask questions of whom we presume is looking and who is being looked at. We also think about how the gaze becomes more complicated in our modern media context, especially when we move beyond binary, heteronormative understandings of gender and sexuality. We definitely recommend checking out "E31 The Female Gaze (Part 1): The Origins of the Gaze" before listening to this one. As two people who study, analyze, and have a literal podcast about media, we stand in solidarity with the WAG and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike–along with their counterparts in other industries/countries, who also deserve fair wages and labor protections– none of the works we discuss here or in other episodes would exist. Lit discussed this episode: Get Up EP by NewJeans, Spicy by Aespa, Her Private Life, See You in My 19th Life, My Love Story with Yamada-Kun at Level 999; The Song of the Lioness Quartet, The Immortals Quartet, The Lunar Chronicles, A League of Their Own (TV Series), Bonus reading (aka works cited & consulted): Bowers, Susan R. “Medusa and the Female Gaze.” NWSA Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, 1990, pp. 217-235.   Benson-Allott, Caetlin. “No Such Think Not Yet: Questioning Television's Female Gaze.” Film Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 2, 2017, pp. 65-71. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/FQ.2017.71.2.65. Forster, Stefani. “Yes, there's such a thing as a ‘female gaze.' But it's not what you think.” Medium. !2 Jun 2018. Accessed 13 February 2020. https://medium.com/truly-social/yes-theres-such-a-thing-as-a-female-gaze-but-it-s-not-what-you-think-d27be6fc2fed. Dyhouse, Carol. Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire. Oxford University Press, 2017. Hemmann, Kathryn. "Queering the Media Mix: The Female Gaze in Japanese Fan Comics." Transformative Works and Cultures, no 20, 2015. ⁠https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0628⁠. hooks, bell. "The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators." Black Looks: Race and Representation, Routledge, 2014. Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Visual and Other Pleasures, Indiana University Press, 1989. Phillips, Leah. Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. Wilton, Tamsin. Sexual (Dis)Orientation: Gender, Sex, Desire and Self-Fashioning, Palgrave Macmillian UK, 2004. Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Instagram and Threads @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License;  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of bullying in the narrative from (13:05 - 19:00) and sexual assault from (37:21 - 48:50). This is the second of our two-parter on Netflix's Sex Education with filmmaker, writer, and scholar Michele Meek! We dive right into the sex with this one, starting with depictions of sex in the show, how we feel about the ways consent does and does not work in-universe, and Corinne works through her angry feelings about Season 3 headmaster, Hope Haddon.  Make sure to listen to "E29 Netflix's Sex Education (Part 1) feat Dr. Michele Meek" for the first part of our conversation. To learn more about Michele and her work, visit MicheleMeek.com. As two people who study, analyze, and have a literal podcast about media, we stand in solidarity with the WAG and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike–along with their counterparts in other countries, who also deserve fair wages and labor protections– none of the works we discuss here or in other episodes would exist. Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Threads @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere |  https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective;  Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons  Attribution 3.0 Unported License;  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Episode was recorded in May 2023.

Content warning: While we don't discuss sexual assault in detail, we do mention it a few times, since it often comes up in conversations about consent. We've got a treat for you all this episode! Along with your usual fabulous co-hosts, we're joined by filmmaker, writer, and scholar Michele Meek to discuss the Netflix show Sex Education. In the first of two episodes with Michele, we first learn about her exciting new book, Consent Culture in Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies. Then, in our discussion proper, we introduce Sex Education; decide whether or not we really like the main character, Otis, and other members of the ensemble cast; and work through some of the secondhand embarrassment often associated with teen sex comedies.  Mark your calendars and turn on your SLL notifications: "E30 Sex Education (Part 2) feat Dr. Michele Meek" will drop on July 28th, 2023! To learn more about Michele and her work, visit MicheleMeek.com. Corinne got really excited during What's Sparking Joy and it ran a little long, but if you want to get right to the Sex Education content, you can jump (15:35 - 24:48). Also, if you're a Sex Education fan and want to skip the background/character info, you can bypass (25:49 - 30:48). As two people who study, analyze, and have a literal podcast about media, we stand in solidarity with the WAG and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Lit discussed this episode: The Graceling Trilogy, Vinland Saga (Season 2), To the End of the Moon, The End of Sex Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Threads @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere |  https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective;  Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons  Attribution 3.0 Unported License;  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Episode was recorded in May 2023.

We're doing a deep dive into the Shondaland Netflix show, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story! This episode, we talk about the steamy, but bittersweet romance of George and Charlotte, the evolution of the inimitable Lady Danbury, and how this new Bridgerton tale makes space for the complex desires of mature women. Like most Bridgerton series, this one has a large cast. Skip to (18:56) to bypass the character and series introductions. A quick note to bolster our discussion of minstrel shows, they rose in prominence and popularity in the mid-1800s and—to be explicit—relied upon mocking racial stereotypes of Black folks. For more information about the history of minstrelsy and it's afterlives in our modern media, check out Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein and Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books by Philip Nel. (And more sources to come!) Make sure to visit Mav and the rest of our friends @ VoxPop over on their site: https://voxpopcast.com/wp/ Lit discussed this episode: KPOP! Broadway, Suzume, "Flower" by Jisoo, Bridgerton, the novels of Julia Quinn, Till the End of the Moon, Game of Thrones, VSQ Performs Prince by Vitamin String Quartet Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter and Instagram @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere |  https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective;  Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons  Attribution 3.0 Unported License;  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

This episode, we're talking about the in's and out's of the Friends to Lovers trope. We cover what we think makes for a great friends to lovers story, what really really doesn't, and throw in a ton of examples. (Only half of which are Kdramas.) What's Sparking Joy ran a little long this episode, so it won't hurt our feelings if you want to skip to the end (19:36). Lit discussed this episode: The Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir (webnovel & Cdrama version), Next in Fashion, Love Between Fairy and Devil, I'm The Villainess, So I'm Taming The Final Boss, The Romance Between Tiger and Rose, Avatar the Last Airbender, Soundtrack #1, Happiness, Law Cafe, Reply 1988, A Love So Beautiful, Fight For My Way, Le Morte d'Arthur, Hospital Playlist, The Kiss Bet, Veronica Mars, The 100, Bluebox, Hometown Chachacha, The Graceling Series: Winterkeep, Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Brooklyn 99, Semantic Error, Something in the Rain/Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food, Dealing with Dragons, Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku, Nevertheless,..., Mass Effect 2, When Harry Met Sally, The Good Place, Romance is a Bonus Book, Someday or One Day, Crash Course in Romance, Your Name, The Story of Ming Lan, Ella Enchanted Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter and Instagram @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere |  https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective;  Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons  Attribution 3.0 Unported License;  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

This week's film is a SFM Saxxy 2017 entry from  @TipsyDucks called Mann Co: Employee Training Video. Lots of in-jokes and satire in the style of a PSA, with a fantastic voiceover by Keith Ferrell aka MrTush. 4:13 We don't pay you to think. We pay you to work. 7:07 Team Fortress 2 stylized graphics. 9:02 Phil's sense of humour and satire. 10:31 Pushing the edge of appropriateness. 13:42 The value of safe comedy. 16:07 The difference between satire and tastelessness. 19:04 Christoph Waltz' The Consultant, based on Bentley Little novel. Credits - Speakers:  @zsOverman @RickyGrove @DarthAngelus @tgharwood Producer: Phil Rice Editor: Damien Valentine Music: CreateStudio Pro Music Assets licensed. Nebular Focus by Dan Henig. Youtube audio collection

We always love a good RDR2 machinima, and this is one by a Sam Menell, released on 9 Feb 2023.  We watched this several times, and Tracy didn't spot the UFO in the opening shot!2:03 Phil's thoughts on the film. 3:36 The soundtrack and editing. 6:24 The searchers 8:05 The ending was such a surprise. Credits - Speakers: Ricky Grove, Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood, Damien Valentine Producer: Phil Rice Editor: Damien Valentine Music:  Nebular Focus by Dan Henig

This week, Ricky provokes us with a selection of shorts released on TikTok.  We discuss the usefulness of the platform for machinima and virtual production creators, as well as pass comment on the three films we take a look at, which unsurprisingly we variously struggle with. Phil's analogy to fish restaurants of different quality sums it up well for us all.8:19 Fish restaurants11:51 Dumpsters for paperbacks analogy15:23 Terry Gilliam said...19:26 Phil's profound reflection on quality kit29:52 Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)35:05 Does Twitter make you a better script writer?Show notes and links hereCredits -Speakers: Ricky Grove, Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood, Damien ValentineProducer: Phil RiceEditor: Ricky GroveMusic: Nebular Focus by Dan Henig

We're diving into the spicy Korean web-drama Hit the Spot, aka Fanta G Spot. There was so much ground to cover (and once again, so much sex) that we're splitting our discussion into two parts. In part one–which you're reading about right now–we give some context for the show's setup, introduce the cast of characters, and share our reactions to the two main romances. Make sure you listen to part two for our thoughts on the ways the drama centers female pleasure, how it balances education with fantasy, and more! Most importantly though, we need your thoughts on Roy Choi with a beard or without. Will y'all vindicate Ayanni's appreciation for stubble? Or will you side with Corinne's approval of a clean shave? Let us know on Twitter, Instagram, or by answering the Spotify poll~ Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter and Instagram @SexLoveLit. Lit discussed this episode: Blue Lock, Lovestruck in the City, Interest of Love, Crash Course in Romance Articles on cis women and faked orgasms: Barnett, Michael D., et al. "Motivations for faking orgasm and orgasm consistency among young adult women." Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 149, 2019, pp. 83-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.05.031. Fahs, Breanne. "Coming to power: women's fake orgasms and best orgasm experiences illuminate the failures of (hetero)sex and the pleasures of connection." Culture, Health & Sexuality, vol. 16, no. 8, 2014, pp. 974-988. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2014.924557. Herbenick, D., H. Eastman-Mueller, Tc. Fu, et al. "Women's Sexual Satisfaction, Communication, and Reasons for (No Longer) Faking Orgasm: Findings from a U.S. Probability Sample." Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol. 48, 2019, pp. 2461–2472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01493-0. Hevesi, Krisztina, et al. "Faking Orgasm: Relationship to Orgasmic Problems and Relationship Type in Heterosexual Women." Sexual Medicine, vol. 9, no. 5, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esxm.2021.100419. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

This episode continues our deep dive into the sexy and sex-filled Korean web-drama Hit the Spot, aka Fanta G Spot.  We get into the ways that the drama centers female pleasure, how it balances education with fantasy, and ask if consent can really be sexy. (Spoiler: yes.) If you haven't listened to part one, check it out for our take on the show's setup, the cast of characters, and for our reactions to the two main romances.  On a more serious note, here's a recent article about one actresses experiences of working on Hit the Spot and being filmed topless: https://www.koreaboo.com/news/x-rated-k-drama-hit-spot-actress-yeonji-coerced-filming-nude-scene-releases-statement/ Lit discussed this episode: Summer Strike, Ditto by New Jeans, Business Proposal Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter and Instagram @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere |  https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective;  Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons  Attribution 3.0 Unported License;  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

This is our spoiler-filled deep dive into the Chinese Drama, Love Between Fairy and Devil. (If you'd like to hear our take on the drama sans-spoilers, check out "E23: Love Between Fairy and Devil (Part 1, Spoiler Free)".) In this episode, we cover the show's multifaceted depictions of love, the scenes that made us cry, and a spicy take about the show's finale. Plus, there's a special behind-the-scenes bonus blooper for y'all at the end of the episode~ Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter and Instagram @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual assault, from (28:34 - 35:55). At the last YASA Conference, we answered the very pressing question on the mind of every Lore Olympus reader: Why is Hades So Hot? (Read: many, many reasons.) This time around we broaden our focus by putting Lore Olympus in context. In our "semi-academic" style, we discuss how this adaptation of the Hades & Persephone myth blurs the boundaries of young adult literature through audience, themes, and what it means to "come of age." Catch Corinne and Ayanni at the first ever, live Sex. Love. Literature. Q&A session on Tuesday, November 1st at 4:30pm ET as part of this year's Young Adult Studies Association (YASA) Conference! Register to join in on the fun and hear great presentations by other speakers. YASA will take place from October 31st to November 4th 2022; you can register for the conference here - https://yastudiesassociation.com/yasa2022/. Other lit discussed this episode - Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Kiss Bet, Ghost Wife, Half-Ghost, Brass and Sass, Yumi's Cells (Webtoon & Kdrama), Midnight Poppyland, Let's Play, and Goblin (aka Guardian: The Lonely and Great God) because Corinne couldn't help herself. Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter and Instagram @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual assault, beginning at (18:55). In this special episode, we ask the question on the mind of all Lore Olympus readers: why is Hades so hot? This episode was originally recorded in 2020 for the the inaugural Young Adult Studies Association Conference, so it leans a little more academic than our usual episodes. We get into how how cartoonist Rachel Smythe's adaptation of Hades and Persephone myth plays with dark prince tropes, retools familiar characters, and grapples with difficult concepts. And make sure to check out our next Love Olympus episode, coming out on Monday, Oct 24th! For more on conference presentations, check out "E11 Special Episode — Tamora Pierce was Our Judy Blume: Sex (Ed) in YA Fantasy" (Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts) Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter and Instagram @SexLoveLit. The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. (Episode was originally recorded in late 2020.)

This episode is the second of our two-parter on Bridgerton, Jane Austen, and the appeal of the Regency Romance genre. Continuing our tête-à-tête with Mav and Hannah from Vox Popcast, we get into why Netflix's Persuasion may or may not have sucked, other delightful Jane Austin adaptations, and what ingredients we absolutely have to have to make a regency romance work. You can find Hannah, Mav, and VoxPop wherever you get your podcasts. But here are links to one of the episodes we mention: e218. Does The Bechdel Test Fail The Bechdel Test? Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter and Instagram @SexLoveLit. Lit discussed this episode includes: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Bridgerton, Belle, Woman of Color, Fire Island, Romeo & Juliet, Romeo + Juliet, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet, The Lizzie Bennett Diaries, Christmas Calendar, Christmas Inheritance, Mansfield Park, and more! The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. “What's Sparking Joy” BGM is Candy-Coloured Sky by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Back in your ear holes for the first time since May, we're fresh off our summer hiatus. This episode we're joined by friends of the show, and fellow pop-culture connoisseurs, Mav and Hannah from VoxPopcast. In part inspired by Netflix's recent Persuasion adaptation as well as the continued success of Bridgerton, we wanted to put regency romances in context. In the first of two parts, we get into what, exactly, a regency romance is, why people love them so much, and our own experiences watching them. (Hint: it's the bosoms.) What's Sparking Joy sparked a little more than we expected, but you can skip (09:25-26:35) to get to the main discussion. Also, a quick correction: Love Like the Galaxy takes place 2000 years ago, not 1000. You can find Hannah, Mav, and VoxPop wherever you get your podcasts. But here are links to some of the episodes we mention: e219. Why We Still Love the Jurassic Park Franchise e201. The Romance Show: (Hannah wouldn't let us call) Love In The Time Of COVID e208. What Time Is It? It's Bridgerton Time! (Again) Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter and Instagram @SexLoveLit. Lit discussed this episode includes: Love Like the Galaxy, Riverdale, Claim to Fame, Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park: Dominion, Obsession (Board Game), Alchemy of Souls, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Yumi's Cells, Afternoona Delight Podcast, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Bridgerton, Unmarriageable The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. “What's Sparking Joy” BGM is Candy-Coloured Sky by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

(Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MOXIE - Enter promo code MOXIE for 83% off and 3 extra months free!) T-shirt for Ukraine Why did no one tell me about Moms Mabley?!!  Hear about her and other 'living loud and proud' ladies (Dorothy Parker, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead) on this International Women's Day. 01:00 Tallulah Bankhead 13:00 Mae West 23:00 Moms Mabley Links to all the research resources are on the website. Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesilyan, Dan Henig. and/or Chris Haugen. Sponsors:  Dumb People with Terrible Ideas, History Obscura, Sambucol Want to start a podcast or need a better podcast host?  Get up to TWO months hosting for free from Libsyn with coupon code "moxie." Dorothy Parker was a famously wry, witty, and acerbic writer and critic, with a low opinion of relationships.  Her wit was apparent from an early age, referring to her father's second wife as “The Housekeeper.”  She was described by journalist and critic Alexander Woolcott as “a combination of Little Nell and Lady MacBeth.”  As a literary critic, she said of one book, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." The author of the book?  Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.  My name's Moxie….   This episode drops on Intl Womens Day, and I've covered a lot of remarkable women on the show, for a number of remarkable reasons, but today we focus on ladies for their remarks, for their wit and their wild ways.  Tallulah Bankhead is a name I've known for many years, but never really knew anything about her.  Back in the day, going to the big “computer show and sale” at the raceway complex with my dad, circa 1996, I picked up some cd-roms of FVM video games and some educational stuff like Microsoft Encarta Musical Instruments and some reference that included hundred of famous quotes.  Some of you I realize will have no idea what I just said, a few of you will be unclear what a cd-rom is, but a few of you just got a cold chill like someone walking across your grave.  Tallulah Bankhead's wit featured prominently with quotes like, "If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom," “I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education," and "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."  ‘I like her,' I thought, but didn't look into who she actually was until this week.  Considering she's the inspiration for one of Disney's most iconic villains, you'd think I'd have come across something between then and now, but not.   Bankhead, the daughter of an Alabama congressman and future speaker of the House, was named after her paternal grandmother, whose name was inspired by Tallulah Falls, Georgia.  That grandmother would raise her when her mother died a few days after her birth and the loss sent her father into a pit of depression and alcoholism.  Little Tallulah was… difficult.  Tallulah discovered at an early age that theatrics were a viable outlet for gaining the attention, good or bad, that she craved.  A series of throat and chest infections as a child had left her with a raspy voice which would later become her trademark.  It also made her stand out from her classmates, but Tallulah was not the type to be bullied and soon became the terror or students and the bane of teachers.  She would find herself sent to, and expelled from, two different convent schools, the first for once for throwing ink at a nun and the next time for making a pass at one.   At 15, Bankhead submitted her own photo to film industry magazine Picture Play, winning a small part in a movie and a trip to New York.  She was allowed to go only by promising her father, a Congressman, she'd abstain from men and alcohol, but as she famously put it in her autobiography, "He didn't say anything about women and cocaine."  She was a self-described "technical virgin" until 20.  Though she lacked training and discipline, she possessed a dazzling stage presence, her husky voice providing fascinating contrast with her good looks.  Quickly ascending to stardom, she just as easily gained renown for her quick-witted outspokenness and indefatigable party going.  In New York, Bankhead moved into the famous Algonquin Hotel, a hotspot for the artistic and literary elite of the era, and was quickly rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous.   After several years starring in films and on stage in New York, Bankhole's acting was praised, but she had not yet scored a big commercial hit.  So, she moved to London in 1923, where her stardom grew. Her fame heightened in 1924 when she played Amy in Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted. The show won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize.     But Bankhead was best known for her antics off-stage.  She'd drive her Bently recklessly through London and if she got lost, she'd hire a black cab to drive to where she was going and she'd follow him.  She spent her nights at booze and drug-filled parties, partaking liberally, and reportedly smoked 120 cigarettes a day, which is kind of dubious because how would you have time for anything else.  She also openly had a series of relationships with both men and women, including some very famous female personalities of the day.  Names attached to her, with or without facts to back it included Greta Garbo, Hattie McDaniel, the first AfrAm actress to win an Oscar, and singer Billie Holiday.   One thing that's known with great certainty is that she talked openly about her vices, and women just weren't supposed to do that.  Hell, they weren't supposed to *have vices.  She found herself included in Hays' "Doom Book", which would help her inspire a Disney villain, since only the worst of the worst were in the Doom Book, but it didn't do much for her career.  Brief refresher on the Hays Code, and you can hear lots more about it in the episode Words You Can't Say on TV or Radio, way back in Oct 2018 before I started numbering episodes, the Hays Code a set of strict guidelines all motion pictures companies operated under from 1934 to 1968.  It prohibited profanity, suggestive nudity, sexual perversions like homosexuality, interracial relationships, any talk of reproductive anything, and, in case you were unclear where all this came from, it banned ridicule of authority in general and the clergy in particular.  This is why married couples in black&white sitcoms slept in separate beds.  The Doom Book, which was either a closely guarded secret or never physically existed, was said to have contained the names of over 150 thespians considered too morally tumultuous to be used in movies.  So this is the law of the land when a gal like Tallulah Bankhead is running around in cursing like a sailor in hedonistic, drug-fueled, openly-bisexual glee.     Giving up on Hollywood, Bankhead returned to Broadway for a decade or so, where she reached her zenith with her performances in The Little Foxes and The Skin of Our Teeth, both of which earned her the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and was briefly married to actor John Emery.  [a la Sam O'Nella] Never heard of him?  Me neither.  What's his story?  I didn't bother.  In 1943 she decided to give Hollywood a second try, but Hollywood hadn't had the same thought about her.  There was one bright spot, being cast in and praised for Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat in 1944.   By the late 1940s and early 1950s, Bankhead's hedonistic lifestyle and excessive drinking had taken its toll.  Critics complained that she had become a self-caricature, which feels like a real oof.  She kept her career afloat by publishing a best-selling autobiography, touring in plays like Private Lives and Dear Charles, before headlining her own nightclub act.  In 1965 she made her last *film appearance, playing a homicidal religious fanatic in the British thriller Die! Die! My Darling!  Tallulah Bankhead's final acting assignments included a “Special Guest Villain” stint on the TV series Batman.  When she was advised that the series was considered “high camp,” her response was vintage Tallulah: “Don't tell me about camp, dahling! I invented it!”   Am I ever going to tell you which Disney villain she inspired?  I supposed, if I must.  Disney animator Marc Davis once told of his creative process when tasked to create the villain for an upcoming film.  (It was 1961 if you want to try to guess.)  The chaaracter would become iconic, instantly recognizable whether cartoon or real life.  Davis looked to real-life "bad" women, and while he said there were a number of different people who he kept in mind while drawing her, one name rose to the top – Tallulah Bankhead.  So no matter if her movie or Broadway career is forgotten, Bankhead will always live on as Cruella de Ville. Mae West   When she was good, she was very good. But when she was bad, she made film history. Whether making films, writing plays or flirting with the camera, Mae West was undisputedly the most controversial sex siren of her time and she even landed in jail because of it.  She was the queen of double entendres on and off screen, delivering some of the best-remembered quips in movie history.  You know the line, "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?", yeah, that was West In "She Done Him Wrong." in 1933.   Mary Jane West was born on Aug. 17, 1893 in Queens, NY to a boxer turned cop and a former corset and fashion model.  The acting bug bit the heck out of West when she was tiny, bringing home talent show prizes at age 5.  At age 12, she became a professional vaudeville performer.  She was secretly married at age 17, but only lived with her husband for a few weeks, though they didn't legally divorce for 31 years. The adult West was rumored to have secretly married another man, but on the whole she preferred younger men. Her long-term partner Paul Novak was 30 years her junior.   West was also rumored to have worn custom 8 in platform shoes, because she was only 5'2”.  Two tangents, I would have *massive respect for anyone who could even walk in 8in platform, and that's something all the women in today's discussion have in common - they're all my size.   In 1926, under the pen name "Jane Mast," West wrote, produced and starred in a play called Sex, about a sex worker named Margie La Monte who was looking to better her situation by finding a well-to-do man to marry well if not wisely.  Mae West was sentenced to 10 days in prison and given a $500 fine, charged with “obscenity and corrupting the morals of youth.”  The rumor mill went into overtime when she was behind bars –  she was permitted to wear silk underpants instead of prison-issue or the warden wined and dined her every night.  West was set free after serving eight of the ten days and remarked to reporters that it was “…the first time I ever got anything for good behavior.”  Before the show was raided in February of 1927 around 325,000 people had come through the turnstiles.  Buns in seats, laddie, buns in seat.   Not bothered in the slightest, and probably keenly aware of all the free publicity she just got, West appeared in a string of successful plays, including "The Drag," a 1927 play that was banned from Broadway because of its homosexual theme.  If you think people try to tell you what to say these days, imagine having to deal with the likes of the Hays Code or the Catholic Legion of Decency, which I maintain sounds like a pro-wrestling tag team.  She was an advocate of gay and transgender rights, which were at the time generally throught to be the same thing, and her belief that "a gay man was actually a female soul housed in a male body" ran counter to the belief at that time that homosexuality was an illness.  Her next play, The Pleasure Man ran for only one showing before also being shut down with the whole cast being arrested for obscenity, but this time getting off thanks to a hung jury.  West continued to stir up controversy with her plays, including the Broadway smash "Diamond Lil" in 1928, about a loose woman of the 1890s.     Dominating the Broadway scene was nice, but West had her eyes set to the, well, to the west and Hollywood.  West was 38 years old at the time, which is the age when the phone stops ringing for many actresses, but Paramount Pictures offered West a contract at $5000 a week ($80,000 now) and –luckily for all of us or I might not be talking about her right now– they let her re-write her lines.  Her first film, Night After Night, set the tone for her on-screen persona right from jump street, from her first line where a hat check girl says to her “Goodness, what beautiful diamonds.” To which West replied, “Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.”  Within three years she was the second highest paid person in the United States.  The only person earning more was the publishing magnate friggin' William Randolph Hearst.     West not only made her own career, she insisted a young Cary Grant be cast opposite her, putting Grant on the road to his Golden Age icon status.  That was ‘33's "She Done Him Wrong," which contained her most famous quote, but I'm sorry to tell you that you've been saying it wrong your whole life.  Yes, your whole life.  You've seen it parodied in cartoons.  The line isn't  "Why don't you come up and seem me sometime?" "Why don't you come up some time and see me?"  Am I being painfully pedantic to point this out?  Yes. …. That's all.   The public loved Mae West, but her blunt sexuality onscreen rubbed censors the wrong way.  In 1934, they began deleting overtly sexy lines and whole scenes from her films. Not about to take that lying down, West doubled up on double entendres, hoping that the censors would delete the most offensive lines and miss the subtler ones.  More controversial films followed.  West was already 50 when she made "The Heat's On," but her youthful look and performance made the film a cult favorite.  She also got banned from the radio for a sketch about Adam and Eve opposite Don Ameche, was on TV a few times, and even recorded two successful rock albums, decades before the late Christopher Lee.  Bonus facts: Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira Mistress of the Dark, was once the lead singer of an Italian punk rock band.     MIDROLL   The script for this episode started with Bankhead, West, and Dorothy Parker.  I recognized that they were demographically pretty similar, though Parker was Jewish and there's a wild theory out there that West was mixed-race, so I started asking around for WOC/LGBT of that same era and one name came up again and again, a name I'd never heard of, an oversight I now know to be a damn shame if ever there was one.  Presenting for the elucidation of many listeners, Moms Mabley.  Moms, plural not possessive, had been a vaudeville star for half a century on what was called the Chitlin Circuit, before white audiences began to discover her.  Her trademarks were her old lady persona, complete with house coat, dust cap and waddling shuffle, and her raunchy, man-hungry humor, which is funny in a few ways when you consider she was an out-and-proud lesbian.   Although Moms spent her professional life making people laugh, her personal life had more than its share of grief.  If you're not in the mood for tragic backstory, I totally understand if you want to hit your jump-30 button.  Born Loretta Mary Aiken in North Carolina in 1894, Moms was the grandaughter of a slave and one of 16 children.  She was the victim of rape twice before the age of 14, once by an older black man and the other by the town's white sheriff.  Both rapes resulted in pregnancies; both babies were given away.  Loretta's father, a volunteer fireman, had been killed when a fire engine exploded, and her mother was run over and killed by a truck while coming home from church on Christmas Day.  Her stepfather forced her to marry a man she didn't even like, one assumes to pare down the number of dependent minors in the house.  At the age of 14, Loretta ran away to join a minstrel show.  A young girl out in the world on her own would normally be a recipe for disaster, heartache and suffering, but Moms had already had enough of all those, thank you very much.  She took the name Mabley from her first boyfriend and acquired the nickname Moms later on, though none of my sources, and they are regrettably few and superficial, recounted why.  She was only in her early 20's when she devised the old lady character and kept her persona up until her actual age exceeded the character.   Like all who played vaudeville, she had multiple talents: dancing, singing, jokes. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she had a gift for crafting original material far stronger than the stock routines others toured with. At the prompting of the vaudeville team Butterbeans and Susie, she moved to New York City in the early 20's and found herself in the the Harlem Renaissance. "I never went back across the Mason-Dixon line," recalled Mabley. "Not for another thirty years."  Toward the end of her life, Moms would say “There were some horrible things done to me.  I played every state in the Union except Mississippi.  I won't go there; they ain't read.”  She hardly needed to back then anyway, playing the Apollo so often she could probably have gotten her mail forwarded there.   There used to be a showbiz expression, “It won't play in Peoria,” meaning something will not be successful for a wide, Joe Everyman (read: white) audience, and Moms certainly fit that bill.  Moms talked about sex constantly.  That's not surprising from female comics these days, though it still isn't as acceptable as it is for male comics.  But unlike the male comics of Mom's day, she slid into the jokes sideways with a double-entendre or a well-placed pause, rather than the straightforward use of obscenity that would become popular with such later black comedians as Richard Pryor.  Although Loretta herself was a lesbian, Moms was that of ''dirty old lady'' with a penchant for younger men.  She made fun of older men, subtly ridiculing the ways they wielded authority over women as well as the declining of their sexual powers. Her signature line became: ''Ain't nothin' an old man can do for me but bring me a message from a young man.''   She moved from vaudeville into films, but Hollywood wasn't exactly rolling out the red carpet for black actors and film-makers.  That's okay, they said, we'll just do it ourselves.  As early as 1929 there were over 460 "colored movie houses" across America. owned and operated by, and catering specifically to, African-Americans, with all-Black cast films, shorts, and even newsreels.  But it would be fair to say that these were B-movies, filmed in a couple of days, with whatever equipment and people you could cobble together.  Hell, scenes were usually shot in one take, because editing requires more time and money.  Where they shone was in the musical numbers, crafting scenes that would have shamed MGM or Warner Brothers, if only they'd had any budget at all.  Comedian Slappy White remembered, "It wasn't hard casting the actors. All of us were out of work before the picture started [and we] would all be out of work again as soon as it was finished."   Moms starred in 1948's Boarding House Blues where she played landlord to a building of rent-dodging vaudeville performers, which is an amazing premise. The film also showcased "Crip" Heard, a tap dancer with only one arm and one leg. And the best thing about Boarding House Blues?  You can actually see it!  It's on the free Tubi app, link in the show notes, not a sponsor, and I plan to watch it as soon as I can make myself sit still for 1.5 hours.  Watch-party anyone?   Film was nice and everything, but it was vinyl records that gave Moms the boost she needed to expand her audience.  Comedy records were *the thing in the early 60's.Her first vinyl appearance came a few years prior with the 1956 Vanguard Records release A Night at the Apollo. The album is a fascinating social document with liner notes written by Langston Hughes.  Of the many other noteworthy things about that album is the fact that Moms wasn't paid for her part in it.  So she was understandably reluctant when the Chess brothers asked her to cut an album with them.  Phil and Leonard Chess were Jewish immigrants who arrived in Chicago a few months prior to the stock market crash who were able to buy some South Side bars after the end of prohibition.  Their Macomba Lounge became a hot spot when they started booking live music, mostly rhythm and blues, which drew in the biggest crowds.  The brothers noticed this, and that the acts who had people lining up around the block, weren't available on records, so they started a record company.  Chess Records signed names like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, and Chuck Berry.  These records delivered new found joys for the white public and offered posterity for Chicago's African-American crowd.  Always on the lookout for what was popular with their original Black audience, Chess Records asked Moms Mabley to sign, but she understandably didn't want to get screwed again.  Luckily her manager was able to persuade her and Moms Mabley on Stage (also known under the name Moms Mabley: The Funniest Woman Alive) was produced.    Chicago was host to Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club, a venue that always featured a strong roster of Black performers and plenty of white bohemians, and that's where she recorded Moms Mabley at The Playboy Club.  Y'all gotta see this album cover, link in the shownotes.  If you were to listen to On Stage and then Playboy Club, you'd notice something…different between the two albums.  On Stage was recorded at The Apollo and opens with a thunderous cacophony of cheerings.  Playboy Club, not as much, because that album was recorded in front of an all-white audience.  It was time for a cross-over.  It was also the time for civil rights –lunch counters, fire hoses, marches.  Mabley's act became increasingly political, but her benevolent old grandma persona made her non-threatening and more accessible to white crowds. Moms knew white audiences needed to hear her message now, and that they might actually hear her.  She was just a little old lady, shuffling onto the stage, how threatening could she be?  Plus she was on the biggest TV shows of the day –Merv Griffin, Johnny Carson, Flip Wilson, Mike Douglas, the Smothers Brothers– and they were okay, so she must be okay.   Moms had crossed over.  She played Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.  She put out more albums, including my favorite title, Young Men Si, Old Men No.  She began acting in big studio films, like The Cincinatti Kid, with Steve McQueen.  In 1966 Moms returned to the South for the first time in over three decades.  It, uh, didn't go great.  In the middle of her show, five shots rang out in the theater and Moms scrambled off-stage.  Thankfully, the shots went nowhere near her, originating apparently from a fight between audience members.  Regardless, a story made the rounds that one of the bullets went straight through her floppy hat.  "I hadn't been in Columbia, South Carolina, for thirty-five years," explained Moms, "and [now] bullets ran me out of town."    Music became a regular part of her act, and a cover version of "Abraham, Martin and John" hit No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 19, 1969, making Mabley, at 75, the oldest living person to have a U.S. Top 40 hit.  Mabley continued performing in the 1970s. In 1971, she appeared on The Pearl Bailey Show. Later that year, she opened for Ike & Tina Turner at the Greek Theatre and sang a tribute to Louis Armstrong as part of her set.[24] While filming the 1974 film Amazing Grace, (her only film starring role)[1] Mabley suffered a heart attack. She returned to work three weeks later, after receiving a pacemaker.  She is survived not only by her children (she had four other children as an adult), but by more contemporary comedians who remember her and want to keep her story alive.  She was the subject of a Broadway play by Clarice Taylor, who played one of the grandma's on the Cosby Show; two projects from Whoopi Goldberg, one being the comedy show that put Goldberg on the map in 1984 and a documentary in 2013, and in season 3 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, where she was portrayed by lifelong fan Wanda Sykes.   And that's… Dorothy Parker's wit was, deservedly, the stuff of legend.  Of the Yale prom, she said, “ If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”  It was that saucy humor that got her fired from her job as a staff writer at Vanity Fair.  Parker spoke openly about having had an abortion, a thing that simply was not done in the 1920's, saying, “It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.” A firm believer in civil rights, she bequeathed her literary estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Remember   Sources: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/204532%7C103917/Mae-West/#biography https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mae-West https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52283/13-things-you-might-not-know-about-mae-west http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/04/this-day-in-history-mae-west-is-sentenced-to-10-days-in-prison-for-writing-directing-and-performing-in-the-broadway-play-sex/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tallulah-Bankhead https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/05/real-cruella-de-vil-tallulah-bankhead https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/09/theater/theater-the-pain-behind-the-laughter-of-moms-mabley.html https://dorothyparker.com/gallery/biography https://bookshop.org/books/your-brain-on-facts-things-you-didn-t-know-things-you-thought-you-knew-and-things-you-never-knew-you-never-knew-trivia-quizzes-fun-fa/9781642502534?aid=14459&listref=books-based-on-podcasts https://www.mamamia.com.au/tallulah-bankhead-cruella/