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Sorry for the late ep! Martha and Maren watch and mostly enjoy the 2018 based-on-real-people skateboarding adventure Skate Kitchen. Check out their real life counterparts on Instagram!

On May 31 and June 1, 1921, white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma descended on the Greenwood District of Tulsa. This district, colloquially referred to as Black Wall Street, was a prosperous district populated by mostly black residents due to Tulsa's harsh segregation laws. The massacre was instigated by the alleged assault on a white woman by 19 year old Dick Rowland, and by the end, an as-yet-unnam...

It's a throwback episode this week on Love YA, with Maren and Martha digging up the 2003 "gem" What A Girl Wants. We discuss Amanda Bynes' ouvre, the highs and lows of this early aughts film, and Colin Firth's distressing lack of shirtlessness.

In an effort to make sense of *all of this*, Pete and Martha take a crack at The Great Influenza, the 2004 examination of the Spanish Flu by John M. Barry. Additional reading: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/americas-response-to-coronavirus-pandemic-is-incomprehensibly-incoherent-says-historian-who-studied-the-1918-flu/2020/05/22/1906391a-7b53-11ea-b6ff-597f170df8f8_story.html

We have a brand new one for you! The Half of It is a brand spanking new Netflix Original, written and directed by Alice Wu and starring Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, and Alexxis Lemire.

Pete and Martha do a deep dive on one story: The Big Short, the 2010 expose of the 2007 financial crisis that was then adapted into the lightly fictionalized 2015 film directed by Adam McKay. We get mad! You should too!

We take a break from streaming originals to watch Olivia Wilde's 2019 girl-centric comedy Book Smart, which Maren has never seen! Did she like it? Listen to find out...

Why exactly do we find underdog sports stories so captivating? It's lowkey Martha's favorite genre of movie, and Pete still finds a way of subverting the assignment for his own purposes. The homework for the episode: Moneyball (2011, dir. Bennett Miller) and Miracle (2004, dir. Gavin O'Connor).

Hey, the sound quality of this one sucks and we're sorry! We debated not posting it, but the chances of us being able to re-record it are pretty much none, so here it is with caveats. Something funky is going on with Maren's audio, and hopefully this won't be true in the next ep. Anyway, we discuss the big budget flick The Space Between Us, which wasn't based on a YA boo but sure does feel like it...

We take a look at how characters in film deal with isolation, since, you know, we're all in that boat. Spoiler alert: some people handle it NOT WELL. Homework for the episode: The Thing (dir. John Carpenter) and Moon (dir. Duncan Jones)

Good morning! Maren and Martha are back to help ease your mind and guide you through these wild teen rom com waters. Today, we're discussing the Netflix offering Be Somebody.

It's the flipside to our last episode! Pete and Martha bring you a few choice pieces of media to help us all process the pandemic and our personal quarantines. Homework for the episode: Kingdom of Needle and Bone by Mira Grant, and the 2011 Steven Soderbergh film Contagion.

We're back! With a movie that we certainly watched with our own eyeballs! Today Maren and Martha are discussing the 2016 Australian movie, Emo: The Musical.

We're back! Sorry for the unintentional hiatus. The world has been kind of a lot for the last few months, and it hasn't been great for our (Martha) brains. But we've confabbed and reformatted some things, and now we are here again for you in these trying times. Pete and Martha tell you what they've been consuming to keep themselves sane and calm, bring you some recommendations, and let you know wh...

It's back, baybee! Maren and Martha get to take a breather from the chaff and get into the much-anticipated sequel to To All The Boys I've Loved Before. Is it as good as the first one? Probably not! Did we still have fun watching? You betcha.

First, hear Martha's hilariously misguided predictions for the ceremony. Then, hear Pete, Martha and return guest Lizzie Meyer discuss the ceremony. We chat about the relevancy of the awards, the hits and misses, and how happy we are for Parasite.

Disclaimer: neither Maren nor Martha harbors any ill will towards One Direction, fanfiction, or the creators and fans thereof. They do, however, harbor a great deal of ill will towards themselves for making each other watch this movie.

Joel Kenyon, podcast extraordinaire, joins us once more for an in-depth look at international film and American adaptations. We achieve a surprising amount of parity on opinions for the materials at hand! Homework for the episode: Let The Right One In (2008, dir. Tomas Alfredson); Let Me In (2010, dir. Matt Reeves); Shall We Dance? (1996, dir. Masayuki Suo), Shall We Dance? (2004, dir. Peter Chels...

We're back with another classic! Maren and Martha take to the ice to discuss the 2005 Disney film, Ice Princess.

Did you miss us? We missed you! Your DYDYH crew is back and joined by return guest and wonderful human Sarah Caputo to dig into the big question plaguing us all today: why on earth would anyone actually want to be Darth Vader?

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Forget Halloween, Christmas is the true horrific holiday. Return guest Joe Caputo joins Pete and Martha to delve into why Christmas inspires such excellent horror movies, including a side trip into the wild and wonderful world of Northern European Christmas folklore. The homework for the episode: The Nightmare Before Christmas (dir. Henry Selick, 1993), Anna and the Apocalypse (dir. John McPhail,...

Listen. We all make mistakes. Did Netflix make one with this movie? Who can say. Announcement: Love YA! will be taking a short break over the holidays, but will return with a vengeance in the new year. Have a nice break!

It's our morally obligatory Top Ten Movies of the Decade episode. Edited to correct the missing audio, sorry for anyone who listened to the original and wondered why Martha was talking to herself!

Maren and Martha go deep into body image, Dolly Parton, and the general joys of Jennifer Aniston and Southern hospitality when they discuss the Netflix adaptation Dumplin'.