227 – To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, Movies You Think About A Lot, Sharp Objects Wrap-Up

This week, Patches is not dead, so we're back to talk about Netflix's To All The Boys I've Loved Before and the Rom-Com era of Netflix. Then, spurred by a Joanna Robinson prompt, the hosts each pick a movie they think about all the time that no one talks about, then – Sharp Objects wrapped up on HBO – the hosts distill the Amy Adams opus and see what they thought.


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FORMAT


00:00 – Lightning Round: Best Thing You Saw In Theaters '18


01:44 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 227! – Read the Review David is talking about at the bottom of the notes


04:21 – Tidbit: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before


 


20:33 – Mini-Segement: A Movie You Think About All The Time That No One Talks About


29:16 – Segment 3 – Sharp Objects Wrap-Up


53:53 – Outro


 


DAVID TOLD ME TO ADD THIS


Hi Fighting in the War Room,


I’m writing in to tell you all how much I enjoyed the recent Quarter Quell podcast where you all talked about your personal lifelong obsessions. I think the main reason I listen to podcasts is that I get to hear from people who have unique tastes and interests that I share, which I don’t often find in people I know in real life. A couple years ago I moved up to Minnesota from Georgia for a job opportunity, and although I knew a few people up here, for the most part I had to star over with meeting people with similar interests and making friends, which gets more and more difficult the older I get (I’m 29; I moved here when I was 26…I think?). Podcasts can be a good way to hear people talk about things you like when you don’t know anyone else that likes what you like. I really loved your episode because I connected really deeply with all of your personal obsessions. I don’t think I’m unique in being equally interested in Radiohead, musicals, Sherlock Holmes, and trivia, but the coincidence of all four being together was pretty astonishing because those are four things that have all been lifelong interests of mine as well.


I loved David’s unabashed love of Radiohead. I was introduced to Radiohead by a kid in my class that I shared an almost complete overlap in musical taste with back in 9th grade, and we became friends in part based on a mutual interest in music. I think my first album was The Bends, and I remember him burning me a copy (back when you still did that), which I ripped onto my computer and listened to on my 256 MB mp3 player. He bought all the albums in sequence over the next few months, and slowly burned me copies (don’t tell Radiohead) through Hail to the Thief, which was the latest release at the time. I had always liked Radiohead, but it wasn’t till I was a freshman in college when In Rainbows came out, and I became what I consider a superfan of them. I made a lot of friends that first semester from mutual excitement about the a...