Best Rom-Coms and Romantic Movies: Episode 889
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Our favorite romantic films, plus the history of St. Valentine and Valentine’s Day, and attending the wedding of someone you used to date.
Featured musical artist: Daniel Bashta
Roundtable: Best Movies for Valentine’s Day
Do you have a go-to film for Valentine’s Day? Do you prefer a rom-com or an epic romance or period drama? To help you celebrate February 14th, our panelists duke it out over the all-time best movies about love and romance. Listen in to see if your favorite makes the list and hear our opinions on what makes for a great love-centric storyline.
Culture: Will the Real St. Valentine Please Stand Up?
Where did the Valentine’s Day traditions of flowers, romantic cards and heart-shaped candies come from? It started with St. Valentine, a real person with a fascinating story. To help separate truth from legend, historian Bill Petro shares facts, fiction and legacy around the Roman priest and the holiday that shares his name.
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
Inbox: Attending the Wedding of Someone You Dated
What if you’re invited to the wedding of someone you used to have feelings for? What if it was someone you actually dated? A counselor offers advice.
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless show. |
| 0:12.5 | Well, friends, welcome to this week's episode of the Boundless Show. |
| 0:15.9 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:18.0 | And we have to say, happy Valentine's week. Maybe you're listening to this on |
| 0:24.5 | Valentine's Day, maybe on the weekend, whatever, but just know that we love you. I'm making an |
| 0:31.7 | air heart. There you go. And so let me also give you a little preview of what's coming up on the show because I often do that as well. |
| 0:40.0 | So later on for our inbox, we need to know how do you cope with attending a friend's wedding when it was someone that you used to have feelings for? |
| 0:49.1 | So that can get awkward really quickly. |
| 0:51.6 | A very difficult question, and one of our counselors is going to answer that. |
| 0:55.4 | And then for our culture segment, with Valentine's Day, pretty much here, we interview my friend, |
| 1:01.6 | who is a historian and blogger and podcaster, Bill Petro, on who exactly St. Valentine was. |
| 1:09.7 | Spoiler alert, the jury is still kind of out on that, okay? But he gives so much |
| 1:14.7 | info on this. You're not even going to know what we are talking about. Also, some history on the |
| 1:20.2 | holiday in general and how we got to where we are today. So stay tuned for that. Okay, here we are for |
| 1:26.0 | our roundtable. Keeping the Valentine's theme, we have assembled a super gaggle of rom-com and romance fans, including Ryan, Chloe, and Paul. |
| 1:40.0 | Welcome, you guys. |
| 1:41.0 | Hey. |
| 1:41.3 | All right. |
| 1:42.4 | All right. |
| 1:43.3 | So mostly we're just going to spitball what we love about movies, |
| 1:48.1 | why we put them at the top of our list, specifically if they involve romance. |
| 1:53.5 | Paul maybe can wear a double hat because technically he is in charge of plugged in here |
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