Time After Time

Hey time sluts, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we have another engaging and wonderful guest this week. If you listened to the Peggy Sue Got Married episode, you'll know him as the smartest person who went to Paige's high school...who is not the smartest person she knows now. Everyone else will just know him as Michael Jalkio, Iron Man triathlete, Amazon coder, and,...

It's a beautiful day in the Time After Time neighborhood as we welcome a very special guest, Paul Farhi. Paul is a renowned reporter for the Washington Post, a three-time winner of the National Press Club award for media reporting and criticism, a fierce Twitter presence, and MOST importantly, the father to a certified expert in time travel romances. (The certified expert is Helena, and Paige made...

Hi, hello, let's go on a journey all the way back to a couple weeks ago and hang out with Mark and Margaret in the movie-with-the-too-long-title, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. As we come up on the year anniversary of quarantine, it has never felt more appropriate to talk about being stuck in a time loop for an hour. Luckily, watching Mark and Margaret get unstuck from their time loop gave us a g...

There is something very comforting about old movies, especially when they avoid super problematic tendencies. There is also something very comforting about Paige's couch, especially when there's an Helena on it, and the combined comfort of this movie and the couch made us a wee bit silly during this episode. Stay on until the very end to hear the worst of it, where we go down a deep rabbit hole of...

Oh hello, didn't see you there. Welcome to our Jake Johnson fandom podcast. But only the Jake Johnson from new girl. Not the Jake Johnson in this movie, 'cause he problematic as hell. But alas, we powered through and had some fun along the way because this movie should be fun, right? RIGHT? We so want it to be fun. Grab your zither and join us on our confusing journey. 

Hello time sluts! Your fearless leaders like to think they are pretty smart, but turns out, they are dumb dumbs compared to this film. Follow along as we try to decipher and summarize and explain and somehow get so confused that we actually agree on a doomsday clock rating for once! Also, if you stay until the very end, you'll get some great new podcast ideas to steal. But don't steal them because...

Happy New Year and Happy Accidents! Woah, what a strange coincidence (or happy accident, amirite?)! Anyway, welcome back to 2021--we made it to the future--unlike back-travelers in this movie who only make it to the past. This is a big moment for the pod (listen in for a historic/herstoric joke) because we watched the movie and recorded this separately, so we even surprised each other with our hot...

HAPPIEST OF HOLIDAYS TIME SLUTS! Welcome to a new podcast called "Paige lists award shows for twenty minutes." Just kidding, that's what we call an inside joke, which you will get if you listen to this very fun, very exclusive a-list, very insider-y podcast. Also, we spend quite a while diving back through the magic that was the 1990s classic Sister, Sister. Honestly, even if you decide not to lis...

Fah-la-la time sluts, and welcome to another Christmas time travel CLASSIC, The Knight Before Christmas! This episode is too long because we had too much fun discussing this film with best friend of the pod, Charlie Brook! Not only is she one of the best humans we've ever met, she also produced Perpeturapetion, a whole documentary about rape culture in the media, and has her own podcast on rape cu...

Welcome to the slow-talking, apolitical winter-wonderland of Hallmark Christmas movies! This week, we go full-on Christmas mode with A Timeless Christmas, a movie that came out a week ago and takes place....in some recent unspecified year they refuse to clarify for us or the hot millionaire who has time traveled there from 1903. Listen up ya dumb time sluts, because we're going to teach you some m...

Merry Christmas Time Sluts! It's early November, so you know what that means. Halloween is OVER and it's Christmas movies from here on out. We tried to find a nice Halloween-Christmas bridge this week with Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, but listen as we discuss why that didn't quite work out. Also, if you're all "Bah-Hum-Bug I HATE CHRISTMAS", still listen because you'll learn a lot about Ben Affleck...

Hello and welcome to spooky ass Scorpio season! We do not talk about Scorpios or Halloween at all in the episode, and we truly apologize for that. But speaking of this spine-chilling, hair-raising season, you might feel like you have Déjà Vu while listening to this episode because Rachel McAdams is back baby! And she is once again romantically entwined with a low-stakes time traveler with a dead p...

Happy Wednesday, distinguished time sluts! We have a fun surprise for you this week, and it's not just that we managed to get through a whole episode without a single reference to 9/11. This week, we have our very first guest! Liam Bouquet is a PHD candidate in politics, has been permanently banned from Twitter, and, most importantly, is the co-parent to Paige's dogs. Basically, we went the easies...

This week we're chatting about Kate and Leopold, and, if you've been waiting for your favorite time-travel, romantic-comedy podcast to discuss 9/11, then this is the episode for you! We also delve into how this is a movie about New York definitely written by people who live in LA, how maybe Meg Ryan is a bad actor, and how this movie's takes on chivalry and capitalism are confusing, etc etc etc.&n...

Love IS a battlefield. And there's no better soldiers to go into battle with than our time sluts. Please enjoy our delight in this 2004 classic in which feminist icon Mark Ruffalo calls 7 minutes in Heaven "spin the rapist". Listen to us debunk the myth that all New York women wear heels 24/7, and then, if you want to see Helena as a purse, go to one of our Instagrams (@helaylay234 or @paigeilyssa...

No one’s been asking for it, but today we bring you the 2006 ABC Family original movie, If Only, starring Paul Nichols and, weirdly, Jennifer Love Hewitt. It’s JLH, so of course we had to do a deep dive on vajazzling before we get to why this movie is bad and whether or not it’s true that someone in the relationship always loves more. Rate, review, etc etc. Also, as much as we try to be an escapis...

YES IT'S HAPPENING. YES IT'S HAPPENING. YES IT'S HAP-Is that joke old yet? Anyway, you've been asking; we've been listening. So we're doing the movie that really set the stage for all the time loop rom coms to come. Did you know this movie starred Bill Murray, NOT Tom Hanks? Is there groundhog abuse happening on set? Should we start a spinoff podcast about curly brunette romantic leads? So many qu...

Part two of the movies that inspired the podcast: Palm Springs, a Hulu original that, if time is linear to you, just came out! It's different from When We First Met because it's good and we like it. If your romantic fantasies involve J.K. Simmons violently murdering you over and over...then this is the one for you! (but also maybe therapy is for you?)  Enjoy the ride and because we still don't kno...

We start with the movie that inspired the podcast – When We First Met: a 2018 Netflix romantic comedy starring Adam Devine. This movie has all the elements you want in your dream time-travel romcom...just done in such a poor and illogical way that it's keeping us (mostly Paige) up at night. Haven't seen it? Not shocking. Don't worry, we'll do a lil recap before taking a deep dive back to 2014 to h...

Hey did you accidentally stumble into a time machine and stumble out in the very concerning year of 2020? Does quarantine feel like you're stuck in an endless time loop? Do you need to listen to more white ladies talk about romantic comedies?! Well, then...listen up for some romantic comedy, time-traveling weed wacking.