249: How Rom Coms Ruined Us

Pop Apologists

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Lauren, Chan, and returning guest Joe Peacock are diving in to chat about the biggest misconceptions and unrealistic expectations that romantic comedies have given them, from jobs and apartments to the way a partner should be expressing their love. Lauren, Chan, and Joe take a look at some of the rom coms that have lied to them the most: You’ve Got Mail, Runaway Bride, Pretty Woman, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and more. They also chat about the rom com male archetypes and why rom com writers have set women and men up for disappointment. Finally, Chan shares where she was looking for her perfect meet-cute to happen, Lauren recalls a time where she tried to create a rom com moment in her life, and Joe shares his dream of dating someone adjacent to a certain celebrity. Shop Clean Simple Eats protein powder and use code POPAPOLOGISTS for 10% off! Click here to try EarlyBird CBD/THC gummies and use code POP20 for 20% off. To support the show, consider subscribing on Patreon, where you can get a bonus episode of Pop Apologists every Friday! Please note this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.

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0:00.0	He ruins her job, her career.
0:02.7	He runs her out of business.
0:04.0	It doesn't matter in the end.
0:05.7	Because guess what?
0:06.7	She's now, you know, going to marry Mr. Fox.
0:10.1	Okay, she's actually just going to be a rich, wealthy wife.
0:12.9	So who gives a shit about her mom's bookshop?
0:15.2	You got to crack some eggs to make an omelets.
0:40.2	Well, well, we are together again with the one and only Joe Peacock. We have somehow coerced him to record with us. I don't know how he got so lucky. Today we've come to the table to commiserate to discuss why rom-coms have ruined all of us. And who better to, you know, discuss this with than Joe
0:46.2	Peacock. So welcome. Thank you for dragging me back. I feel like this is a support group,
0:51.6	honestly, a support group I've needed and wanted and I finally found
0:55.4	because I genuinely feel like I've been ruined by rom-com. Wait, no, I truly, when I was
1:01.4	preparing for this gorgeous episode, I was like discovering how much of my issues are actually
1:08.7	just me entirely. And all of my maybe romantic problems are based on
1:13.8	the fact that I have completely unrealistic expectations set for me by Shonda Rhymes, by the writers
1:19.9	of these rom-coms who truly have ruined our expectations of what the men or women in our life
1:26.7	will do for us. Today is a deconstruction.
1:30.0	And I just want to give us all permission to weep, to wail, whatever it's going to take for us
1:36.3	to really get to the bottom of this and just sit with it. It's okay. Let's hold space for each other
1:40.8	today. Please. I will say I'm coming at it from a place. I'm not ready to
1:44.3	give up some of these expectations. Okay. I would just like to process my anger that they're not
1:48.3	being able to. I was I was taught that a world would be waiting for me that I don't think has come
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