293 - Wild Things
Romancing the Pod
Romancing the Pod - Paige Wesley, Todd Schlosser
4.8 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
“Is this what it was like to be Matt Dillon in the 90s"
This week’s most romantic movie is... Wild Things. This film has everything: Versailles beach heels, an IQ score that makes Einstein look stupid, and bush-cam detective work. If you love rich-kid swamp noir, courtroom rug-pulls, and Kevin Bacon being weird in ways that feel legally actionable, 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 ooh, baby, had me at 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 having. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you for tuning into Romance in the Pod. You had us at Hello. I'm Paige Wesley. And I'm Todd Schlosser, and this week, Paige made us watch Wild Things. So Paige... Bound, bount, bough. I know, right? Wild things. Every time I think of this song, I think of Dana Carvey because of Wayne's World. |
| 0:54.3 | But this movie had nothing to do with that. |
| 0:56.7 | Not at all. |
| 0:57.2 | Can I ask you, was this the first time you saw Wild Things? |
| 0:59.8 | Okay, Todd, I have a wild confession to make. |
| 1:03.2 | A Wild Things confession. |
| 1:04.5 | I had never seen this movie up until about six months ago. |
| 1:08.5 | Okay, okay. |
| 1:09.6 | I caught it on TV in a hotel. Like an HBO or like TBS? Like TBS, bro. How? How? Was it 12 minutes long? How is that possible? It was drastically cut. Although, if you watch this on Netflix, you also watched a cut version of this movie. I'll talk about it in fun fact. Which I did. I did watch |
| 1:27.7 | the Netflix version. Yeah. Yeah. I did too. And I was like, wait a second. Isn't there a like, we'll talk about it. Oh, Paige. That's the only thing I noticed. That's the only, I've seen this before, but I really only remember like the pool scene. Yeah, the famous pool scene. And I was like, I think that was way longer before. |
| 1:43.4 | It was. |
| 1:44.5 | Or rather, Netflix has |
| 1:46.2 | the theatrical cut and most of us are used to what I would call like the HBO cut or the DVD |
| 1:51.4 | cut. Yeah, the good cut. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That has the longer piece. I mean, actually, Paige, |
| 1:56.2 | the longer piece is still in it. You see Kevin Bacon's dong at the end still. So the longer |
| 2:00.3 | piece is still in it. There you go. There you go. I was familiar of it with like within society. It is ubiquitous. Everybody knows about this movie. Yeah. Except I would argue that most people probably haven't seen seen this movie. They've just seen those scenes. That was me for sure. Yeah. Mike had always joked about doing this movie. And I was like, |
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