304 - Troy

Romancing the Pod

Romancing the Pod - Paige Wesley, Todd Schlosser

Comedy, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.8 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

“It was wild to me that when they get there, they didn’t try the 'Helen Who' defense.”

This week’s most romantic movie is... Troy. This film has everything: Cutting edge fighting techniques, Roasting neighborhood children, And using a papyrus scroll to call in sick to war. If you wish you could copy-and-paste Jason Mantzoukas, see the world’s dopest trick horse, and Pentatonix pantheons, 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.
0:32.0	Ooh, ah, I'll have what she's happening.
0:36.0	Thank you for tuning into Romance and the Pop.
0:37.5	You had us at Hector!
0:40.0	I'm Paige Wesley.
0:41.0	And I'm a pussy little bitch, Paris, also known as Todd Schloser.
0:45.8	And that means this week, Paige made us watch Troy.
0:50.6	Paige, this can't have been the first time you saw Troy.
0:53.1	So walk me through the first time he saw it.
0:54.9	I saw Troy in motherfucking theaters.
0:58.6	So did I.
0:59.4	I saw this in theaters with my mother, who convinced my father to let me see it, even though it was rated R.
1:07.2	Because I was technically too young.
1:09.3	My mom agreed to go.
1:10.6	And my dad was like, I don't know. I feel like it's just going to be a bunch of Brad Pitt fucking people. And my mom was like, it's history. And then we went and saw Troy. It's not. It is like, okay, it is, it is like loosely based on history. It's mythology. It's like the world's first historical fiction. Poem. Sure. I guess. I did think it was funny how a few people in the Facebook group, some people guessed it. And they were like, no, that's not a love story. And I'm like, excuse you, the woman's face launched a thousand ships and changed the course of mythology. We're not going to, we're not. Hey, what? I, 100%. And, like, if you know the poem, like, you know that, like, Pericles is not, like, a cousin cousin, you know what I'm saying? Oh, you mean Patricklis. Patricklis, yeah. Well, if you read Song of Achilles, you know that Patrickliss is a distant relative that comes to live with Achilles, they are closer
2:02.0	in age. And yeah, you're right. There's a lot of, there's a lot of lines about his love for Achilles.
2:08.2	I also, because the new Odyssey movie, which admittedly also is kind of a love story because
2:14.9	Achilles is trying to get back to his wife who is like tricking suitors into leaving her alone for 10 years. People are talking about it and there's never
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