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Podcaster. Poet. Parent. pUX pResearcher.

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Falling in Love Montage @filmpodcast.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
At long last, we rewatched Romancing the Stone and found that -- when traveling to stereotypical 1984 Colombia, there's a lot to (un)pack. But the good news is this: 1) it's still a madcap romp, 2) it's not Milo and Otis, and 3) it's still got sexy leads -- and yes, we're talking about Danny DeVito.
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Episode #169: Romancing the Stone — Falling In Love Montage
Every other week, Valerie and Helen break down a different chick flick with a proprietary tampon-based rating system and zero chill.
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There was a tractor-trailer fire up ahead and the entire highway is closed but the good news is I have reading material and it's not like it's a story about methods of transportation getting impossibly stuck somewhere indefinitely
The hand of someone in the passenger seat of a car stopped in traffic holding a copy of the book The Terror, by Dan Simmons, which is very much a story about methods of transportation getting impossibly stuck somewhere indefinitely
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Got left behind today but not letting it get me down because the guys that got raptured didn’t even get to bring their Baja Blasts
Photo of a mostly empty Taco Bell dining room with 8 or 9 cups of Mountain Dew Baja Blast sitting abandoned on various tables and two matching backpacks sitting alone on the floor
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Falling in Love Montage @filmpodcast.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
NEW EPISODE!! To celebrate her birth month, we finally called our mom back to the show -- just in time to talk about a movie that came out 55 years ago.
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Episode #167: A New Leaf — Falling In Love Montage
Every other week, Valerie and Helen break down a different chick flick with a proprietary tampon-based rating system and zero chill.
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The word of the day is chorizont, which apparently does not mean “don’t eat that chorizo”????
Screenshot of a Word A Day email that says “A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
chorizont
PRONUNCIATION:
(KOR-i-zont)
MEANING:
noun: One who disputes the authorship of a work.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek khorizo (to separate). Earliest documented use:
1868.
Jun 12, 2026”
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Falling in Love Montage @filmpodcast.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
After covering 158 non-Ryan-Reynolds movies, we owed it to our listeners and ourselves to tag the guy in. So here he is: Ryan Reynolds in the 2008 "Brooksy" feature Definitely, Maybe, a movie that -- if you used only this episode as evidence -- you would swear was maybe our favorite movie ever?
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Episode #166: Definitely, Maybe — Falling In Love Montage
Every other week, Valerie and Helen break down a different chick flick with a proprietary tampon-based rating system and zero chill.
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Falling in Love Montage @filmpodcast.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
To celebrate its 40-year anniversary — and the 10-year anniversary of us somehow not covering the movie already whoops — we brought back Amy Pascale, pHD (physician[?] on Howard Deutch), to discuss the beloved teen rom-com-dram Pretty in Pink.
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
“Stay signed in,” she said, every day of her life, forever.
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Falling in Love Montage @filmpodcast.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Valerie and Helen welcome first-time guest @marisam.bsky.social to talk about fifth-time (to the podcast) Richard Curtis classic Notting Hill, gay awakenings, and who the most well-known Welsh person in America is. It’s nice! Surreal, but nice.
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Sharper Chris @ccsharps.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I know which Gaslight I’ll be watching.
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Tyra Banks is getting, deservedly, a lot of flak for how a number of things went down on ANTM, but I don’t think enough people are acknowledging how right she was about “pot ledom” genuinely being “Top Model” backwards
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Falling in Love Montage @filmpodcast.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
NEW EPISODE! You fell in love with us on the air. And suddenly, you knew — you weren’t satisfied with the chick flick discourse your other relationships were providing. From there, you followed us from across the country, until we FINALLY covered Nora Ephron’s 1993 classic Sleepless in Seattle.
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·154· Sleepless in Seattle - Falling in Love Montage
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Sic semper Moranis.
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
In this part of the country, a little ice can go from disruptie to catarooptic real fast
A graphic table noted to be from the National Weather Service classifying hazard levels and impacts of different ice amounts

ICE STORM DANGER:
HAZARD SCALE
Ice Thickness
Classification
Common Impacts
Trace to 0.10"
Nuisene
Disruptie
Slick roads, dangerous break; driving/walking.
0.50" (1/2
(1/4 inch)
Crippling
Stimall branches break; isolwer outages.
Witeespaied power outages. Large branches snap. 500+ Ibs extra weight on utilities
1.000+
(1 inch)
Catarooptic
Entire trees collape.
Massive grid failure.
Entire collape. Outages last
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 08/01/2026
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Forget astrology — what does the fate of the Gävle goat from your birth year say about you?
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
John Cena implies the existence of John Almuerzo
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Falling in Love Montage @filmpodcast.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
NEW EPISODE! Beloved Lindsay-Lohan-correspondent Sarah Norton joins us as we gush about — but don’t fully spoil — this highly relatable tale about waking up in your mother’s body just two days before she is due to marry this really handsome British chef guy. Just like we did when we were kids.
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·152· Freakier Friday - Falling in Love Montage
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Pardon the from-the-toilet angle of this photo, but man my brain really read this as “live / laugh / hands”
Low angle shot of a white door on which is displayed a canvas that says, in exaggerated, hard-to-read script, “wash your hands”
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I got excited for a minute because I thought I heard a ghost wailing in the distance But it was my nose whistling At the exact frequency necessary to summon ghosts
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I’m sorry y’all, I got excited and couldn’t stop myself (and @angelkpoet.bsky.social, who actually put together this labor of overwhelming love per my request)
Poster/box image for the anime Ouran High School Host Club, except it’s “Zohran High School Host Club,” and Zohran Mamdani’s face is lovingly superimposed on all of the characters’ heads
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if the men find out we can shapeshift, they’re going to tell the church
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No Kings includes this asshole
King Friday XIII from Mister Rogers Neighborhood
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Mommy (reading) : "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both." The End. *weeps softly* Son: ...I GUESS IT'S JUST CALLED "WEB" NOW
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
For the first time in my life I just thought to myself “I wonder what Adam Carolla thinks about this”
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Oh man, imagine where we feminists would be today if Secret deodorant hadn't made it OK to talk about our pH balance all the time
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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 16/09/2025
i love going back to an early episode of a podcast i've listened to for many years and being like wow this sounds like shit
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Dear postmates Is this how you do a postmates? Please send me Gushers Thank you
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
"Charlie Kirk should have been murdered privately" girl what
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🎶Somedayyy my prince* will come🎶 *menopause
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Falling in Love Montage @filmpodcast.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
NEW EPISODE! Dear listeners — some of whose names we know — thank you for helping us celebrate Valerie’s birth month by listening to our episode covering 1990’s Joe Versus the Volcano. We forgot how wonderfully bonkers. Thank you for listening.
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Welp I got to talking about Here Comes the Boom again this morning, and now everyone’s invited to guest on my new show Shit I Guess I’m Doing a Kevin James Podcast Now
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Caturday Baby Smelly Cat Stomps
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
‪Me: Aw, Walter, you’re so cozy and calm, all curled up like that. ‬ ‪Walter: *is actually a bunched-up pair of pants and not my dog Walter*‬
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2025
a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
*Borat voice*
A close-up photo of the menu description for an item called “mahi wulfe”
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
After the school day, my son is allowed a prescribed amount of screen time, and if he's had a good day, he may add up to 30 minutes of Ben Vereen time, during which he can watch anything featuring Tony-Award-winning actor Ben Vereen.
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"'Heartburn from cereal!?' she cried, after getting heartburn from cereal." - first line of my novel (or memoir?)
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Look out, AI bullshit, I just accidentally sent someone a “nudge,” so *I’m* the new worst thing about Duolingo 💁‍♀️
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Falling in Love Montage @filmpodcast.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
For the month of ‘ly in the year ’25, we grabbed Helen’s son (and Valerie’s nephew!) Elam to discuss three whole movies — if you consider the High School Musical movies to be movies. Was this the most fun we’ve had in a while? BET ON IT (bet on it) bet on it (bet on it)!
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Huh. It never occurred to me that I might just be *orange*.
Screenshot of a post in the r/OneOrangeBraincell subreddit showing an image of a large, fluffy orange cat with the title “Is this guy fat or just orange”
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Kids these days don’t even know WHO LOVES ORANGE SODA(?)!!
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Hot office gossip(!!): no one can believe it's already July 16th.
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Rar n shit
A photograph of a large, shadowy cloud in the vague shape of a Godzilla-like monster with crudely drawn eyes and roaring open mouth
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Falling in Love Montage @filmpodcast.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Did you just look at me? Did you!? HOW DARE YOU!!?! CLOSE YOUR EYES! ...and listen to our fine new episode on The Favourite! Wink!!1!
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Heathcliff plus Helmets @heathcliffhelms.heathcliff.cat · 28/06/2025
S.I.L.
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Any female born after 1983 Can’t Cook, All They Know Is Mcdonalds, Charge Their Phone, Twerk, Be Bisexual, Eat Hot Chip And Lie #bipride #liepride
A manicure that features the McDonald’s logo, a battery charging icon, a cartoon butt twerking, a hot Dorito-style chip, and the word “lie” in cursive, on a background of the bi flag colors (blue, purple, and pink)
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
After 9 years it’s nice to know I can still come out of a podcast recording feeling like I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I just want y’all to know how funny I am when I’m watching Dante’s Peak while mildly high right now
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Helen, a handbasket @helemnop.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Walter: BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK Me: Walter, chill out. It's just a dog. Me, internally: OH MY GOD LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL DOG AGHHHHHHHHH OMG OMG DOG DOG DOG DOG
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