291 - Love Jones
Romancing the Pod
Romancing the Pod - Paige Wesley, Todd Schlosser
4.8 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
“I can't incorporate the word pop into this press release.”
This week's most romantic movie is... Love Jones. This film has everything: unexpected Philly Fanatic thirst, Chuck E. Cheese token-wealth flexes, And weaponized Toasted Oat drama. If you love record-store “just give me her info” behavior, taking poetry way too literally, and ruthless editing/pacing nitpicks, this episode’s for you!
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| 0:00.0 | you better not have no planes tonight movie time and it's feeling right |
| 0:10.2 | you're looking for a love than last you'll find it a romance in the podcast ooh Ooh, ooh, baby, had me out, hello. |
| 0:24.0 | Ooh, I love you. |
| 0:26.2 | I know. |
| 0:28.0 | Ooh, ooh, baby, you're the wind beneath my wings. |
| 0:32.1 | Ooh, ah, I'll have what she's happening. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you for tuning into romance in the pod |
| 0:37.5 | You had to said hello, I'm Paige Wesley |
| 0:39.3 | And I'm Todd Schloser |
| 0:40.7 | And this week, Paige made us watch |
| 0:42.9 | Love Jones |
| 0:45.1 | So Paige, was this the first time you saw Love Jones? |
| 0:48.5 | Yeah, this was my first time. Me too. It was one that |
| 0:51.0 | kept coming up on lists |
| 0:52.4 | When we would look specifically for Black rom-coms or romance movies, |
| 0:57.9 | dromedies, whatever. |
| 0:59.1 | And it was one of the older ones where I feel like there's a whole bunch from the era of like 2006 to 2015. |
| 1:10.7 | There's like a whole bunch. And then there's a whole bunch from like 2015. There's like a whole bunch and then there's a whole bunch from like 95 to like |
| 1:16.3 | 2000 or whatever. And that's the one that's the group this falls into for sure. That's the group this |
| 1:21.7 | falls into. And we kind of mixed it up this time too. We're like, you know, because poetic justice is like 95. This is 97. |
| 1:29.4 | So we kind of like spaced it out and did like some new, some old just as kind of like to catch up some of the older ones we hadn't done. |
| 1:37.4 | So that's how we ended up doing this one. I was not as familiar of it other than just hearing the name a bunch. |
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